Add aarch64 R package installation warning #2787
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There is an issue when installing the duckdb R package on aarch64 systems. For example, on Apple Silicon this:
fails with this error:
This is because some distro's R installs, including Debian's, override the
make
CXX flags to-fpic
instead of-fPIC
which causes compilation failure on aarch64. Here is the relevant duckdb issue: duckdb/duckdb#3049. This is not a fault in duckdb, but rather of R's package installer. Ideally this would be fixed in the distros packages or R, but even if done so that would take a while to roll out.This PR adds this warning to the R package install page (in a similar way to #2757):