elfutils error

[stevenrbrandt]

Steps to reproduce

I attempted to install apptainer on my cluster with spack. It failed when installing elfutils, it said it couldn't find a header file named archive.h. So I built libarchive to my environment and built again. I got the same error message, but now libarchive was installed. So I added elfutils as follows

spack add elfutils cppflags="-I$(spack location -i libarchive)/include"

Then I did a concretize -f and an install and everything worked.

So the bug is with the elfutils package. It doesn't handle the libarchive dependency correctly.

I should add that I always build my environments with

spack config add concretizer:unify:true

Error message

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Information on your system

Queen Bee 4 is a Redhat cluster with a Lustre file system.

Spack debug report:

* **Spack:** 1.2.0.dev0 (https://github.com/spack/spack/commit/b47619603d05fa41a20278af0ac190b2fd7b2540)
* **Builtin repo:** https://github.com/spack/spack-packages/commit/876d656ad17366f92e2233d843ba285d655150dd
* **Python:** 3.11.5
* **Platform:** linux-rhel8-icelake

General information

• I have run spack debug report and reported the version of Spack/Python/Platform
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe this is not a duplicate
• I have run the failing commands in debug mode and reported the output