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Build failure for [email protected] on mac with non-system version of ncurses #118873

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Bug description:

Using the spack package manager to install [email protected] on darwin-sonoma-m1 with the following command:

sasyed@MAC-140753 ~> spack install --keep-stage [email protected]+optimizations%[email protected] ^[email protected]

results in the following build error:

Build error
...
==> Installing python-3.12.1-frh24vuhc6b5eyy346wng65mlwm3h3il [21/21]
==> No binary for python-3.12.1-frh24vuhc6b5eyy346wng65mlwm3h3il found: installing from source
==> Fetching https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.1/Python-3.12.1.tgz
==> Ran patch() for python
==> python: Executing phase: 'configure'
==> python: Executing phase: 'build'
==> python: Executing phase: 'install'
==> Error: ProcessError: Command exited with status 2:
    'make' '-j1' 'install'
...
     1763    ld: warning: reexported library with install name '@rpath/libunwind.1.dylib' found at '/Users/sasyed/Documents/packages/spack/opt/spa
             ck/darwin-sonoma-m1/apple-clang-15.0.0/llvm-17.0.6-uzrfikeehxbzxp3x3twl6wjnh53hpvmr/lib/libunwind.1.0.dylib' couldn't be matched with
              any parent library and will be linked directly
     1764    DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/private/var/folders/mb/zd6pgmt100q77s5fhn5xf4jw0000gq/T/sasyed/spack-stage/spack-stage-python-3.12.1-frh24vuhc6b5e
             yy346wng65mlwm3h3il/spack-src ./python.exe -E -c 'import sys ; from sysconfig import get_platform ; print("%s-%d.%d" % (get_platform(
             ), *sys.version_info[:2]))' >platform
  >> 1765    [ERROR] _curses failed to import: dlopen(/private/var/folders/mb/zd6pgmt100q77s5fhn5xf4jw0000gq/T/sasyed/spack-stage/spack-stage-pyth
             on-3.12.1-frh24vuhc6b5eyy346wng65mlwm3h3il/spack-src/build/lib.macosx-14.0-arm64-3.12/_curses.cpython-312-darwin.so, 0x0002): symbol 
             not found in flat namespace '_mvwadd_wch'
  >> 1766    [ERROR] _curses_panel failed to import: PyCapsule_Import could not import module "_curses"
  ...

The associated log files with this build error are:

spack-build-01-configure-out.txt
spack-build-02-build-out.txt
spack-build-03-install-out.txt

No build error when building [email protected]. The associated log files are:
spack-build-01-configure-out.txt
spack-build-02-build-out.txt
spack-build-03-install-out.txt

Note that the following flags are added by spack when optimizations are turned on:

        if "+optimizations" in spec:
            config_args.append("--enable-optimizations")
            # Prefer thin LTO for faster compilation times.
            if "@3.11.0: %[email protected]:" in spec or "@3.11.0: %apple-clang@8:" in spec:
                config_args.append("--with-lto=thin")
            else:
                config_args.append("--with-lto")
            config_args.append("--with-computed-gotos")

https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/b79761b7eb5eb2e2d6b8174c3043524462772bf6/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py#L574-L581

CPython versions tested on:

3.12

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

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