CentOS 7's pkg-config doesn't have --define-prefix

r/configure

@@ -174,13 +174,19 @@ else
       if [ -d "$LIB_DIR" ]; then
         # Use pkg-config to do static linking of libarrow's dependencies
         export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${LIB_DIR}/pkgconfig${PKG_CONFIG_PATH:+:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}}"
-        # --define-prefix is for binary packages. Binary packages uses
-        # "/arrow/r/libarrow/dist" as prefix but it doesn't match this
-        # path. --define-prefix uses a directory that arrow.pc exists
-        # as its prefix instead of "/arrow/r/libarrow/dist".
-        PKG_CFLAGS="`pkg-config --define-prefix --cflags --static --silence-errors ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}` $PKG_CFLAGS"
-        PKG_DIRS="`pkg-config --define-prefix --libs-only-L --static --silence-errors ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`"
-        PKG_LIBS="`pkg-config --define-prefix --libs-only-l --libs-only-other --static --silence-errors ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`"
+        PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
+        if ${PKG_CONFIG} --help | grep -- --define-prefix >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+          # --define-prefix is for binary packages. Binary packages
+          # uses "/arrow/r/libarrow/dist" as prefix but it doesn't
+          # match the extracted path. --define-prefix uses a directory
+          # that arrow.pc exists as its prefix instead of
+          # "/arrow/r/libarrow/dist".
+          PKG_CONFIG="${PKG_CONFIG} --define-prefix"
+        fi
+        PKG_CONFIG="${PKG_CONFIG} --static --silence-errors"
+        PKG_CFLAGS="`${PKG_CONFIG} --cflags ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}` $PKG_CFLAGS"
+        PKG_DIRS="`${PKG_CONFIG} --libs-only-L ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`"
+        PKG_LIBS="`${PKG_CONFIG} --libs-only-l --libs-only-other ${PKG_CONFIG_NAME}`"
       fi
     fi
   fi