Compile fails on aarch64 with -fpic error

[asfimport]

On trying to install the R package (v. 6.0.1) on aarch64 the C++ package builds successfully but then the installation fails with the error

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/RtmpFxiJjo/R.INSTALL25d336ebab6c6/arrow/src/../inst/include/cpp11/protect.hpp:38: warning: too many GOT entries for -fpic, please recompile with -fPIC

Environment: System: Oracle Cloud, Ampere A1 instance, Ubuntu 20.04
R version: 4.1.2
CMake version: 3.16.3
g++ version: 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
Reporter: Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-15039. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

[asfimport]

Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya:
A workaround is to add the following to ~/.R/Makevars

CPICFLAGS=-fPIC
CXXPICFLAGS=-fPIC
CXX11PICFLAGS=-fPIC
CXX14PICFLAGS=-fPIC
CXX17PICFLAGS=-fPIC
CXX20PICFLAGS=-fPIC
FPICFLAGS=-fPIC

[asfimport]

Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
We don't do anything to set or unset -fPIC in the arrow package, so you may want to look into why these weren't set on your system.

[asfimport]

Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya:
This happened with R built from source. So the flag must have been configured when R was built. 

[amoeba]

Just in case anyone else runs into this, I can also reproduce this on a fresh Ubuntu 22.03 VM running on aarch64 with the pre-built r-base package (i.e., not a source install).

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.15.0-83-generic #92-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 14 09:34:05 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

# I assume this controls the default set of compiler flags
$ cat /etc/R/Makeconf | grep -i pic
CPICFLAGS = -fpic
CXXPICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX11PICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX14PICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX17PICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX20PICFLAGS = -fpic
...snip

Setting ~/.R/Makevars as suggested in #30556 (comment) fixes it under my environment too. I'm not sure a change is needed at this point or what that change might be but I did want to share the above info.