@boegelbot please test @ jsc-zen3
EB_ARGS="--installpath=/tmp/pr-25193"

Check that the patch does not affect behavior on non aarch64 machines (should not since they have the same code in Amber 25)

@Crivella: Request for testing this PR well received on jsczen3l1.int.jsc-zen3.fz-juelich.de

PR test command 'if [[ develop != 'develop' ]]; then EB_BRANCH=develop ./easybuild_develop.sh 2> /dev/null 1>&2; EB_PREFIX=/home/boegelbot/easybuild/develop source init_env_easybuild_develop.sh; fi; EB_PR=25193 EB_ARGS="--installpath=/tmp/pr-25193" EB_CONTAINER= EB_REPO=easybuild-easyconfigs EB_BRANCH=develop /opt/software/slurm/bin/sbatch --job-name test_PR_25193 --ntasks=8 ~/boegelbot/eb_from_pr_upload_jsc-zen3.sh' executed!

• exit code: 0
• output:

Submitted batch job 9535

Test results coming soon (I hope)...

Test report by @Crivella

SUCCESS
Build succeeded MANUAL REPORT (unrelated failure in uploading the report file).
crivella-desktop - Linux Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), x86_64, 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K (skylake), Python 3.11.14
See https://gist.github.com/Crivella/cbcb06c388f2d9d8afa37c7573e8ecc9 for a full test report.

Test report by @boegelbot
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (total: 1 hour 34 mins 15 secs) (1 easyconfigs in total)
jsczen3c1.int.jsc-zen3.fz-juelich.de - Linux Rocky Linux 9.7, x86_64, AMD EPYC-Milan Processor (zen3), Python 3.9.23
See https://gist.github.com/boegelbot/122def4b580fa0b98ddf89ae638cd9a7 for a full test report.

Was also able to perform a manual build on top of EESSI on a neoverse_v1 node

Test report by @branfosj
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 1 out of 1 (total: 3 hours 31 mins 46 secs) (1 easyconfigs in total)
bear-pg0210u03a - Linux RHEL 8.10, x86_64, Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8480CL (sapphirerapids), Python 3.6.8
See https://gist.github.com/branfosj/2cdc491446eb2306773f1537e9108a76 for a full test report.

Going in, thanks @Crivella!