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[R][Packaging] Address CRAN check NOTE about portable file names #46947
Description
Describe the enhancement requested
We're seeing a NOTE about non-portable file paths in recent CI jobs,
- test-r-linux-as-cran: https://github.com/ursacomputing/crossbow/actions/runs/15812594733/job/44566038239
The note points to the issues being with some recent Arrow C++ check-ins:
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3782199Z * checking for portable file names ... NOTE
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3789516Z Found the following non-portable file paths:
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3790791Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/flight_sql/include/flight_sql/config/connection_string_parser.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3792457Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/flight_sql/include/flight_sql/ui/dsn_configuration_window.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3794282Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/attribute_utils.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3795845Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/encoding_utils.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3797434Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/odbc_connection.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3798970Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/odbc_descriptor.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3800482Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/odbc_environment.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3801924Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/odbc_handle.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3802941Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/odbc_statement.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3803798Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/odbc_impl/type_utilities.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3804631Z arrow/tools/cpp/src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc/odbcabstraction/include/odbcabstraction/spi/result_set_metadata.h
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3805301Z Tarballs are only required to store paths of up to 100 bytes and cannot
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3805750Z store those of more than 256 bytes, with restrictions including to 100
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3806104Z bytes for the final component.
2025-06-23T00:43:52.3806680Z See section ‘Package structure’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.
These are new files (since #40939) so the new failure makes sense.
At the very least, we need to find a way to silence the NOTE but it would be good to check if this causes any other issues.
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Packaging, R
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amoeba commentedon Jun 30, 2025
Quote from the relevant section in WRE (link):
amoeba commentedon Jun 30, 2025
I don't think these files are currently or will be used in a source build so I think we can just add this path prefix to https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/r/bootstrap.R#L54.
GH-46947: [R][Packaging] Add src/arrow/flight/sql/odbc to source excl…
amoeba commentedon Jul 1, 2025
Issue resolved by pull request 46948
#46948