[ARROW-16895] [R] Fix cmake version detection

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32216
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Neal Richardson
• Created: 23/Jun/22 14:55
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:47
• Resolved: 23/Jun/22 23:50

Description

In ARROW-8049, we upgraded bundled Thrift to 0.13, which bumped the minimum required cmake to 3.10. But since that was written as a number and not a version string in the R code that checks for the cmake version (https://github.com/apache/arrow/commit/76d3c36006162766ec598442a0c0d2192f5e0d0b#diff-8345393f38ffaf553909d5bce167e2622cdf865a7e03230ba3f8d376588dd151L371), it effectively was dropped to 3.1. So when attempting to build with cmake 3.6 (https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/13425), the script wrongly used it instead of downloading a newer cmake.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13429