[jira] [Created] (ARROW-16903) Install failure on Ubuntu-22.04 when libboost-filesystem-dev is missing

["Jeroen (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jeroen created ARROW-16903:
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             Summary: Install failure on Ubuntu-22.04 when libboost-filesystem-dev is missing
                 Key: ARROW-16903
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16903
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: R
            Reporter: Jeroen


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
{code:java}
   * 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
  ---------------------------------------------------------
{code}
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:
{code:java}
-- 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)
{code}
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.



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