[GitHub] [arrow] mattpollock commented on a change in pull request #8813: ARROW-10780: [R] update known R installation issues for centos7 and a…

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mattpollock commented on a change in pull request #8813:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8813#discussion_r533674921



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File path: r/vignettes/install.Rmd
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@@ -284,7 +284,11 @@ so that we can attempt to improve the script.
 ## Known installation issues
 
 * On CentOS, if you are using a more modern `devtoolset`, you may need to set
-the environment variables `CC=/usr/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/bin/g++`.
+the environment variables `CC` and `CXX` (e.g., in the R `Makeconf` file).
+These may be set to system defaults (e.g., `CC=/usr/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/bin/g++`)
+or they may be set to use the `gcc`/`g++` from the devtoolset. In the latter
+case, you will have to make sure that the system arrow dependencies are not
+used (i.e., make sure the system variable `ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG` is false).

Review comment:
       Yep, just added more explanation. In my testing I got back to the segfault on `write_parquet(...)` using the devtoolset-8 to compile the R package but using arrow-devel/parquet-devel from the system (and compiled by the system compilers)




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