Adaptation of the easyconfig for Matlab MCR 2024 from MCR 2023 not working

[MarcoMagl]

I tried to adapt the following working .eb with

name = 'MCR'
version = 'R2023b'  # runtime version 9.12
local_update = '0'

homepage = 'https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler/mcr/'
description = """The MATLAB Runtime is a standalone set of shared libraries
 that enables the execution of compiled MATLAB applications
 or components on computers that do not have MATLAB installed."""

toolchain = SYSTEM

source_urls = ['https://ssd.mathworks.com/supportfiles/downloads/%%(version)s/Release/%s/deployment_files/'
               'installer/complete/glnxa64/' % local_update]
sources = ['MATLAB_Runtime_%(version)s_glnxa64.zip']

moduleclass = 'math'

replacing R2023b with R2023a ( I call the .eb MCR-R2024a.eb)

and running with:

eb --rebuild MCR-R2024a.eb --include-easyblocks=./mcr.py --disable-cleanup-builddir --inject-checksums

Unfortunately, in the set_subdir function of mcr.py, self.subdir return an empty list which cause the sanity to fail.
It looks like the installation directory is empty.

I have no idea how to fix that. Would you have some suggestion? I do not understand what changed between the R2023b and R2024a installations.

When I unzip both .zip containing sources, the filetree are the same.

[branfosj]

The MCR installer needs slightly different information for >= 2024a, but is not helpful in telling us that.

See the updated easyblock in easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks#3369

To install MCR 2024a update 4 (from #20860):

eb --include-easyblocks-from-pr 3369 --from-pr 20860 -Tr