Installation issue: glib@2.86

[Chrismarsh]

Steps to reproduce the issue

$ spack install glib@2.86

Error message

#1625 Does not seem to have fully resolved all the sisues

Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.26.5)
Run-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: NO (tried cmake)

../spack-src/meson.build:2699:24: ERROR: Dependency lookup for gobject-introspection-1.0 with method 'pkgconfig' failed: Could not generate cflags for gobject-introspection-1.0:
Package dependency requirement 'glib-2.0 >= 2.82.0' could not be satisfied.
Package 'glib-2.0' has version '2.68.4', required version is '>= 2.82.0'
Package dependency requirement 'gobject-2.0 >= 2.82.0' could not be satisfied.
Package 'gobject-2.0' has version '2.68.4', required version is '>= 2.82.0'

also: this appears to need a build cmake dependency (Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.26.5))

Information on your system

 spack debug report
* **Spack:** 1.2.0.dev0 (https://github.com/spack/spack/commit/499a1b5494fc8c2d7bfe8bd74e84033ae690ca17)
* **Builtin repo:** https://github.com/spack/spack-packages/commit/e6dbe840bfaecfee7e85f45f08d762b7c12f053d
* **Python:** 3.9.18
* **Platform:** linux-rhel9-sapphirerapids

Additional information

@michaelkuhn

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

[Chrismarsh]

Looks like it is maybe this issue
https://bugs.gentoo.org/951487

$  cd gobject-introspection-1.86.0-p62irw2q64jk4yebdbp2tvvfi4x5sgxq/lib/pkgconfig
$ cat gobject-introspection-1.0.pc
<...>
Name: gobject-introspection
Description: GObject Introspection
Version: 1.86.0
Requires: glib-2.0 >= 2.82.0, gobject-2.0 >= 2.82.0

[Chrismarsh]

I think system paths are sneaking in:

pkgconf-2.5.1-vt2zeyzofhaua3iterxwvbyvrws2ra7u/bin/pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/sysprof-4 -pthread

It seems like glib meson is resolving the dependency from pkgconfig on glib from a system library. Does that seems possible?

[Chrismarsh]

Ok so adding depends_on("glib-bootstrap@2.82:") to glib is enough to mask the system version getting pulled during the glib meson detection.