GCC easybuild installation fails #5061
Description
Hi Team ,
I am trying to build GCC 14 shipped with easyconfig 5,1,0 on RHEL 9.5
here are the errors -
[tec_t1_easybuild@server ~]$ eb GCC-14.3.0.eb --robot
== Temporary log file in case of crash /tmp/eb-bel4vcmg/easybuild-4ltxd71l.log
== resolving dependencies ...
== processing EasyBuild easyconfig /CHBS/apps/EB/software/EasyBuild/5.1.0/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/M4/M4-1.4.20.eb
== building and installing M4/1.4.20...
>> installation prefix: /CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20
== fetching files and verifying checksums...
>> download succeeded: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.20.tar.gz
>> sources:
>> /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/sources/m/M4/m4-1.4.20.tar.gz [SHA256: 6ac4fc31ce440debe63987c2ebbf9d7b6634e67a7c3279257dc7361de8bdb3ef]
>> download failed: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess?id=28ea239c53a2d5d8800c472bc2452eaa16e37af2
WARNING: Failed to download recent config.guess to /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/sources/generic/eb_v5.1.0/ConfigureMake/config.guess
== ... (took 8 secs)
== creating build dir, resetting environment...
>> build dir: /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/build/M4/1.4.20/system-system
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== unpacking...
>> running shell command:
tar xzf /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/sources/m/M4/m4-1.4.20.tar.gz
[started at: 2025-12-01 23:15:05]
[working dir: /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/build/M4/1.4.20/system-system]
[output and state saved to /tmp/eb-bel4vcmg/run-shell-cmd-output/tar-_jujsdm8]
>> command completed: exit 0, ran in 00h00m04s
== ... (took 4 secs)
== patching...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== preparing...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== configuring...
>> download failed: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/config.guess?id=28ea239c53a2d5d8800c472bc2452eaa16e37af2
WARNING: Failed to download recent config.guess to /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/sources/generic/eb_v5.1.0/ConfigureMake/config.guess
WARNING: No config.guess available, not setting '--build' option for configure step
EasyBuild attempts to download a recent config.guess but seems to have failed!
>> running shell command:
./configure --prefix=/CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20 --enable-c++ CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline
[started at: 2025-12-01 23:15:10]
[working dir: /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/build/M4/1.4.20/system-system/m4-1.4.20]
[output and state saved to /tmp/eb-bel4vcmg/run-shell-cmd-output/configure-2egpmgzu]
>> command completed: exit 0, ran in 00h00m39s
== ... (took 40 secs)
== building...
>> running shell command:
make -j 16
[started at: 2025-12-01 23:15:49]
[working dir: /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/build/M4/1.4.20/system-system/m4-1.4.20]
[output and state saved to /tmp/eb-bel4vcmg/run-shell-cmd-output/make-6qf_r3az]
>> command completed: exit 0, ran in 00h00m03s
== ... (took 3 secs)
== testing...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== installing...
>> running shell command:
make install
[started at: 2025-12-01 23:15:53]
[working dir: /home/tec_t1_easybuild/.local/easybuild/build/M4/1.4.20/system-system/m4-1.4.20]
[output and state saved to /tmp/eb-bel4vcmg/run-shell-cmd-output/make-v22omllx]
>> command completed: exit 0, ran in 00h00m01s
== ... (took 1 secs)
== taking care of extensions...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== restore after iterating...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== postprocessing...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== sanity checking...
>> file 'bin/m4' found: OK
>> loading modules: M4/1.4.20...
== ... (took < 1 sec)
== FAILED: Installation ended unsuccessfully: Sanity check failed: No '(RPATH)' found in 'readelf -d' output for /CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20/bin/m4 (took 57 secs)
== Results of the build can be found in the log file(s) /tmp/eb-bel4vcmg/easybuild-M4-1.4.20-20251201.231457.FzSmH.log
== Summary:
* [FAILED] M4/1.4.20
* [SKIPPED] zlib/1.3.1
* [SKIPPED] M4/1.4.19
* [SKIPPED] Bison/3.8.2
* [SKIPPED] flex/2.6.4
* [SKIPPED] binutils/2.44
* [SKIPPED] GCCcore/14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] zlib/1.3.1-GCCcore-14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] help2man/1.49.3-GCCcore-14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] M4/1.4.20-GCCcore-14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] Bison/3.8.2-GCCcore-14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] flex/2.6.4-GCCcore-14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] binutils/2.44-GCCcore-14.3.0
* [SKIPPED] GCC/14.3.0
ERROR: Installation of M4-1.4.20.eb failed: "Sanity check failed: No '(RPATH)' found in 'readelf -d' output for /CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20/bin/m4"
[tec_t1_easybuild@server ~]$ ll /CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20/bin/m4"
>
[tec_t1_easybuild@server ~]$ ll /CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20/bin/m4
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 tec_t1_easybuild user 1008480 Dec 1 23:15 /CHBS/apps/EB/software/M4/1.4.20/bin/m4
please advice.