Installation issue: apptainer on debian 13 @aarch64

[antoine-morvan]

Steps to reproduce the issue

spack install apptainer

Error message

Error message

==> No binary for apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj found: installing from source
==> Installing apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj [47/47]
==> Using cached archive: /home_nfs/users/bmorvana/software-cepp/Linux/spack/var/spack/cache/_source-cache/archive/eb/eb806e22dabfb6549c398b55e50c747e4c51b57f8879da9e29813de40af54b48.tar.gz
==> No patches needed for apptainer
==> apptainer: Executing phase: 'edit'
==> apptainer: Executing phase: 'build'
==> Error: ProcessError: Command exited with status 2:
    '/home_nfs/users/bmorvana/software-cepp/Linux/spack/opt/spack/linux-neoverse_v2/gmake-4.4.1-tpgkd4ngaaxznimmoxlhbgpeagjatlsy/bin/make' '-j16' '-C' 'builddir' 'parallel=False'

2 errors found in build log:
     98      GEN /dev/shm/bmorvana/spack-stage/spack-stage-apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj/src/github.com/apptainer/apptainer/scripts/go-generate
     99      GO /dev/shm/bmorvana/spack-stage/spack-stage-apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj/src/github.com/apptainer/apptainer/builddir/apptainer
     100        [+] GO_TAGS "containers_image_openpgp sylog oci_engine apptainer_engine fakeroot_engine apparmor selinux seccomp libsubid"
     101    # github.com/apptainer/apptainer/cmd/apptainer
     102    /home_nfs/users/bmorvana/software-cepp/Linux/spack/opt/spack/linux-neoverse_v2/go-1.25.6-5xtvz5qe7hkbhcfm5lzeauy3vudgi7y5/go/pkg/tool/linux_arm64/link: running cc failed: exit status 1
     103    /home_nfs/users/bmorvana/software-cepp/Linux/spack/opt/spack/linux-neoverse_v2/compiler-wrapper-1.0-4pwzg2kyr3psk675vhvocqrpnq7owedw/libexec/spack/cc -Wl,-z,relro -pie -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,nocopyreloc -fuse-ld=gold -Wl,--build-id=0x76c70297514aaf27b9f4097ee4fc73e9f0c8babe -o $WORK/b001/exe/a.out -r
            dynamic /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/go.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000000.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000001.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000002.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000003.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000004.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000005.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00000
            6.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000007.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000008.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000009.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000010.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000011.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000012.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000013.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00001
            4.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000015.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000016.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000017.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000018.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000019.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000020.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000021.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00002
            2.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000023.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000024.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000025.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000026.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000027.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000028.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000029.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00003
            0.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000031.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000032.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000033.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000034.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000035.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000036.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000037.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00003
            8.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000039.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000040.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000041.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000042.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000043.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000044.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000045.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00004
            6.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000047.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000048.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000049.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000050.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000051.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000052.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000053.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00005
            4.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000055.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000056.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000057.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000058.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000059.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000060.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000061.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/00006
            2.o /dev/shm/go-link-2457145121/000063.o -O2 -g -O2 -g -l subid -O2 -g -O2 -g -O2 -g -lpthread -O2 -g -ldl -O2 -g -lresolv -O2 -g -l subid -O2 -g -O2 -g -O2 -g -O2 -g -L/home_nfs/users/bmorvana/software-cepp/Linux/spack/opt/spack/linux-neoverse_v2/libseccomp-2.6.0-gfyxcjetqby5bqp4lntdp3pw6tmcu4v
            6/lib -lseccomp -O2 -g -L/home_nfs/users/bmorvana/software-cepp/Linux/spack/opt/spack/linux-neoverse_v2/libseccomp-2.6.0-gfyxcjetqby5bqp4lntdp3pw6tmcu4v6/lib -lseccomp -O2 -g -ldl -O2 -g -ldl
  >> 104    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'
     105    compilation terminated.
     106
  >> 107    make: *** [Makefile:183: /dev/shm/bmorvana/spack-stage/spack-stage-apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj/src/github.com/apptainer/apptainer/builddir/apptainer] Error 1
     108    make: Leaving directory '/dev/shm/bmorvana/spack-stage/spack-stage-apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj/src/github.com/apptainer/apptainer/builddir'

See build log for details:
  /dev/shm/bmorvana/spack-stage/spack-stage-apptainer-1.4.4-evxbtvfppw4u32omxqx47jo3m6txwsnj/spack-build-out.txt

Information on your system

Running debian 13 on aarch64. I could not reproduce on x86 system. This is the first spack command typed (after a spec zlib to check spack is responding properly), no environment used, no system find. I could reproduce in a container with the following installed :

apt-get install -y bash gcc g++ gfortran autoconf automake make libtool bzip2 zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python3 xz-utils patch jq bsdextrautils curl less rsync procps kmod git librdmacm-dev libdrm-dev libelf-dev

spack debug report

• Spack: 1.2.0.dev0 (spack/spack@6249e6c)
• Builtin repo: 63bb690
• Python: 3.13.5
• Platform: linux-debian13-neoverse_v2

Additional information

spack-build-out.txt

@wdconinc

General information

• I have run spack debug report and reported the version of Spack/Python/Platform
• I have run spack maintainers <name-of-the-package> and @mentioned any maintainers
• I have uploaded the build log and environment files
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe this is not a duplicate