You might link issue #10552, this pr should solve this.

@boegelbot please test @ generoso

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PR test command 'EB_PR=12307 EB_ARGS= /apps/slurm/default/bin/sbatch --job-name test_PR_12307 --ntasks=4 ~/boegelbot/eb_from_pr_upload_generoso.sh' executed!

• exit code: 0
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Submitted batch job 16248

Test results coming soon (I hope)...

Test report by @boegel
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 5 out of 5 (4 easyconfigs in total)
node3101.skitty.os - Linux centos linux 7.9.2009, x86_64, Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz, Python 3.6.8
See https://gist.github.com/12b1fb3ea2e3aa487e3534b3d66e80da for a full test report.

Test report by @boegelbot
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 4 out of 4 (4 easyconfigs in total)
generoso-c1-s-1 - Linux centos linux 8.2.2004, x86_64, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz (haswell), Python 3.6.8
See https://gist.github.com/d83c3f498b292edd44bf7200c9b3e1bc for a full test report.

Going in, thanks @Mormacill!

Unfortunately this isn't that easy.
We have a cyclic dependency here:
Perl deps on groff which deps on makeinfo which deps on perl.

I have a potential fix for this which includes making a minimal perl only used for building a minimal makeinfo which is only a builddep for groff.

@boegel This was discussed a bit in the slack but never decided on.

@akesandgren Ugh, totally overlooked that.

Please open an issue on this, using a bare Perl as build dep for makeinfo makes sense, I guess.

Also, ideally, the test suite would have caught this, but I'm not sure how easy it is to check for a cycle in the dep graph...

@akesandgren Hold on, currently the makeinfo easyconfigs don't depend on Perl at all (which may explain why the test suite didn't trip over this).

Are you saying they should?

See, #12067