[ARROW-14710] [R] Install error on Linux arm64 with cmake-X.X.X-Linux-x86_64

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Environment: R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01) -- "Bird Hippie" ; Platform: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30250
• Assignee: Nicola Crane
• Reporter: SHIMA Tatsuya
• Created: 15/Nov/21 06:15
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:41
• Resolved: 16/Nov/21 15:55

Description

If we try to install the arrow package in an environment where cmake is not installed, the installation seems to fail because it tries to use x86_64 cmake.

It may have something to do with the following lines.
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/8ab345d58e38f84dcc335fd47aa856988214e674/r/tools/nixlibs.R#L371-L383

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11703