[Bug] ncurses-6.0.eb cannot install on an EL9 (Rocky 9) OS.

[jkwmoore]

When attempting to install ncurses-6.0.eb it errors out. Not had time to test this on other EL9 flavours but I expect the same outcome.

 cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="9.3 (Blue Onyx)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="9.3"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 9.3 (Blue Onyx)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:9::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
SUPPORT_END="2032-05-31"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky-Linux-9"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.3"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="9.3"

Installation log: easybuild-ncurses-6.0-20240520.163216.wjMrt.log

I noted that this may relate to spack/spack#41981 but I didn't get into any deep level of debugging to confirm.

See also: spack/spack#41982

TIL of eb-live --show-system-info

eb-live --show-system-info
System information (node028):

* OS:
  -> name: Rocky Linux
  -> type: Linux
  -> version: 9.3
  -> platform name: x86_64-unknown-linux

* CPU:
  -> vendor: Intel
  -> architecture: x86_64
  -> family: Intel
  -> arch name: UNKNOWN (archspec is not installed?)
  -> model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8358 CPU @ 2.60GHz
  -> speed: 3400.0
  -> cores: 64
  -> features: 3dnowprefetch,abm,acpi,adx,aes,aperfmperf,apic,arat,arch_capabilities,arch_perfmon,art,avx,avx2,avx512_bitalg,avx512_vbmi2,avx512_vnni,avx512_vpopcntdq,avx512bw,avx512cd,avx512dq,avx512f,avx512ifma,avx512vbmi,avx512vl,bmi1,bmi2,bts,cat_l3,clflush,clflushopt,clwb,cmov,constant_tsc,cpuid,cpuid_fault,cqm,cqm_llc,cqm_mbm_local,cqm_mbm_total,cqm_occup_llc,cx16,cx8,dca,de,ds_cpl,dtes64,dtherm,dts,epb,ept,ept_ad,erms,est,f16c,flexpriority,flush_l1d,fma,fpu,fsgsbase,fsrm,fxsr,gfni,ht,ibpb,ibrs,ibrs_enhanced,ida,intel_ppin,intel_pt,invpcid,invpcid_single,la57,lahf_lm,lm,mba,mca,mce,md_clear,mmx,monitor,movbe,msr,mtrr,nonstop_tsc,nopl,nx,ospke,pae,pat,pbe,pcid,pclmulqdq,pconfig,pdcm,pdpe1gb,pebs,pge,pku,pln,pni,popcnt,pse,pse36,pts,rdpid,rdrand,rdseed,rdt_a,rdtscp,rep_good,sdbg,sep,sha_ni,smap,smep,smx,split_lock_detect,ss,ssbd,sse,sse2,sse4_1,sse4_2,ssse3,stibp,syscall,tm,tm2,tme,tpr_shadow,tsc,tsc_adjust,tsc_deadline_timer,umip,vaes,vme,vmx,vnmi,vpclmulqdq,vpid,wbnoinvd,x2apic,xgetbv1,xsave,xsavec,xsaveopt,xsaves,xtopology,xtpr

* software:
  -> glibc version: 2.34
  -> Python binary: /usr/bin/python3
  -> Python version: 3.9.18
 

[boegel]

@SebastianAchilles Any idea why we haven't seen this on jsc-zen3?

[SebastianAchilles]

@SebastianAchilles Any idea why we haven't seen this on jsc-zen3?

ncurses-6.0.eb was used in GCCcore/6.4.0 and earlier. As far as I see on jsc-zen3 we only build the Supported Toolchain Generations

ncurses-6.0.eb fails indeed on jsc-zen3 with RockyLinux 9.4: https://gist.github.com/SebastianAchilles/c5542ff25a570a6803418ae0096363e9