Failing to build cvxopt-1.3.2

[drago-96]

Environment

- **OS**: macOS Sonoma 14.2.1
- **Sage Version**: 10.3.beta6

Steps To Reproduce

1. git clone https://github.com/sagemath/sage.git sage-test && cd sage-test
2. Install all packages suggested here
3. export SAGE_ROOT=`pwd`
4. export MAKE="make -j4"
5. source ./.homebrew-build-env
6. make configure
7. ./configure
8. make

Config log

config.log

Package logs

cvxopt-1.3.2.log

Additional Information

I think that this is closely related to issue #31905, which has been closed, but it seems not to be fully resolved.

I also tried building with the environment variables CVXOPT_SUITESPARSE_INC_DIR and CVXOPT_SUITESPARSE_LIB_DIR set to homebrew path of suite-sparse, but that didn't solve the issue either.

Checklist

• I have searched the existing issues for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• I have read the documentation and troubleshoot guide

[jhpalmieri]

A workaround is ./configure --with-system-suitesparse=no before building Sage, but it would be nice to be able to use suite-sparse from homebrew.

[drago-96]

Actually I was wrong, by setting CVXOPT_SUITESPARSE_INC_DIR=/opt/homebrew/include/suitesparse and CVXOPT_SUITESPARSE_LIB_DIR=/opt/homebrew/lib it seems to build fine!

However, I have no idea if and how I can make the sage build system do this check and eventually set these variables.

[jhpalmieri]

Perhaps editing (and the rerunning) SAGE_ROOT/.homebrew-build-env?

[dimpase]

The route cause of the trouble is an attempt to use pre-installed brand new version of SuiteSparse (7.6.0).

It was released this month (we should upgrade our SuiteSparse, by the way, I'll do a PR on this).

The error comes from
#include "umfpack.h" in CVXOPT code,
but by right on v7.6 it should be #include <suitesparse/umfpack.h>"

CVXOPT doesn't do a great job detecting these things it seems.