[ARROW-17849] [R][Docs] Document changes due to C++17 for centos-7 users

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33067
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Jacob Wujciak
• Created: 26/Sep/22 18:40
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:56
• Resolved: 18/Oct/22 00:45

Description

With the switch to C++17 centos 7 users need to install and enable devtoolset (and possibly change makevars) to be able to compile the R package, even when using the libarrow binary (see ARROW-17594) but that they can use INSTALL_opts = "--build" to get a binary package that is installable on a centos machine WITHOUT dts -> offline build section. Centos 7 RSPM is an alternative source for that binary package.
Also add messaging in configure or build_arrow_static.sh so that if someone is trying to install from source with gcc 4.8, we tell them what they need to do.

This should be documented and noted in the release notes.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14440