Boost 1.76 with iccifort-2020.4.304 failing

[jshelly]

We are getting an error message from b2 after copying the Boost-1.74.0-iccifort-2020.4.304.eb to Boost-1.76.0-iccifort-2020.4.304.eb, removed the patch and updated Boost version and checksum.
RedHat 8.3 (kernel 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3, glibc 2.28-127, x86_64)

See log file attached:

easybuild-Boost-1.76.0-20210423.130833.qCJbL.log.gz

[Flamefire]

Can you please also attach the project-config.jam and user-config.jam files (if present) from the failed build folder?

Also adding --debug-configuration -d+2 to installopts in the EC might provide some more insight.

[Flamefire]

It seems we need to explicitely put in the path to the intel compilers or B2 might find a system compiler first: https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/dca10cf20759b0d194f8305356bf155cc5632c0e/src/tools/intel-linux.jam#L100

I.e. it searches (some of) those paths first: https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/dca10cf20759b0d194f8305356bf155cc5632c0e/src/tools/intel-linux.jam#L55-L74

[jshelly]

Here's the project-config.jam file. I added the *txt suffix, because it would not allow the *jam suffix. That is the only *config.jam file I found in the build directory.

project-config.jam.txt

[Flamefire]

This is a real bug in the new version which I reported as bfgroup/b2#23

Working on an EasyBlock change

[branfosj]

This is unrelated to the issue stopping the build, but from the project-config.jam

path-constant ICU_PATH : /usr ;

This suggests that we should add ICU as a dependency.

[Flamefire]

Certainly correct.

[boegel]

@branfosj Can you open an issue on the ICU aspect for follow-up?

[branfosj]

@branfosj Can you open an issue on the ICU aspect for follow-up?

I've run some tests on Boost now and I've not been able to reproduce the issue.

[Flamefire]

This likely means that you don't have ICU installed on that node. B2 has some auto-detection there.
Is that the case?

[branfosj]

I've filed easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs#12959 for us to check and decide on how to proceed.