[ARROW-15292] [R] default to binary libarrow on Ubuntu/Redhat

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: R
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30783
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Jonathan Keane
• Created: 10/Jan/22 20:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:36
• Resolved: 06/Jul/22 14:17

Description

The V8 package uses binaries on those platforms: https://github.com/jeroen/V8/blob/16289554d548b9cdaba9cf0c71e35c7586d1a9d8/configure#L28-L35

Could we do this too? One thing that will complicate this is that we don't build our binary + host it somewhere on each build / with nightlies. So we will need to either only do this on release numbers, or do something in CI to host binaries in the style we do with nightlies (or move those nightly builds into apache/arrow and use those...)