[ARROW-16903] [R] Install failure on Ubuntu-22.04 when libboost-filesystem-dev is missing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: R
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32224
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jeroen
• Created: 24/Jun/22 19:48
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:47
• Resolved: 06/Jul/22 18:46

Description

Trying to install the R package on Ubuntu 22.04 gives the following unhelpful error for any configuration, even when using LIBARROW_MINIMAL=true or FORCE_BUNDLED_BUILD=true

   * installing *source* package ‘arrow’ ...
  ** using staged installation
  Replacing default rmarkdown theme...
  *** No libarrow binary found for version 8.0.0.9000 on ubuntu-22.04
  *** Proceeding without libarrow
  ------------------------- NOTE ---------------------------
  There was an issue preparing the Arrow C++ libraries.
  See https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html
  ---------------------------------------------------------

It would be helpful in the message above to mention `ARROW_R_DEV=true` to debug this further because that is not obvious.

Now the issue turned out to be this:

-- Could NOT find Boost: missing: system filesystem (found /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Boost-1.74.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found suitable version "1.74.0", minimum required is "1.58"))
CMake Error at cmake_modules/ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake:892 (add_library):
  add_library cannot create imported target "Boost::headers" because another
  target with the same name already exists.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake_modules/ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake:154 (build_boost)
  cmake_modules/ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake:255 (build_dependency)
  cmake_modules/ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake:1005 (resolve_dependency)
  CMakeLists.txt:567 (include)

So my system had boost, but it did not have libboost-filesystem-dev. This leads to a fatal error, even when we build with bundled dependencies. Is that expected? It is not documented on https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html that this is a hard requirement.

Issue Links

• is caused by: ARROW-16947 [C++] Remove boost dependency with thrift