[R] Full-feature build fails on ubuntu-24.04-arm64

[jeroen]

Building the R package on arm64-linux fails due to ABSL linking errors:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘arrow’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/__w/apache/apache/mylib/00LOCK-arrow/00new/arrow/libs/arrow.so':
  /__w/apache/apache/mylib/00LOCK-arrow/00new/arrow/libs/arrow.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4absl7debian319str_format_internal13FormatArgImpl8DispatchIiEEbNS2_4DataENS1_24FormatConversionSpecImplEPv
Error: loading failed
Execution halted

When we demangle, seems like a missing symbol for absl:

c++filt __ZN4absl7debian319str_format_internal13FormatArgImpl8DispatchIiEEbNS2_4DataENS1_24FormatConversionSpecImplEPv
# bool absl::debian3::str_format_internal::FormatArgImpl::Dispatch<int>(absl::debian3::str_format_internal::FormatArgImpl::Data, absl::debian3::str_format_internal::FormatConversionSpecImpl, void*)

We can work around the problem by disabling absl, either via LIBARROW_MINIMAL=true or ARROW_GCS=OFF.

Reproduce one-liner

You can reproduce in docker on an arm64 system (for example M1 mac) by installing arrow with NOT_CRAN=TRUE.

I also made a GitHub action that does this: https://github.com/jeroen/test-arrow/blob/main/.github/workflows/test.yml

You can see the fail log here: https://github.com/jeroen/test-arrow/actions/runs/14857603984

Component(s)

R

[eitsupi]

Related to #36193

[jeroen]

FYI this is still broken. If we build the R package on a system where there are no libarrow binaries (e.g. arm64 or just any non-release version) the build fails.

[thisisnic]

This should have been resolved in #48574 as we now have binaries - please let me know if it's not