Building singularity images with software depending on gmake using out of date singularity fails

[FrederickDeny]

When building an image that builds a gcc compiler (or any software depending on gmake) with older singularity versions (this issue happens at least up to 3.11.0, but doesn't at 3.11.4) through spack, the process will fail with an error of this type:

==> gcc: Executing phase: 'build'
==> Error: ProcessError: Command exited with status 2:
    '/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu22.04-zen3/gcc-11.4.0/gmake-4.4.1-wi55lxbbhsc647bu3c6qsoqf5guyuora/bin/make' '-j16' 'V=1'

1 error found in build log:
     125    checking where to find the target windmc... host tool
     126    checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
     127    configure: creating ./config.status
     128    config.status: creating Makefile
     129    ==> gcc: Executing phase: 'build'
     130    ==> [2023-09-22-16:28:27.773153] '/spack/opt/spack/linux-ubuntu22.04-zen3/gcc-11.4.0/gmake-4.4.1-wi55lxbbhsc647bu3c6qsoqf5guyuora/bin/make' '-j16' 'V=1'
  >> 131    make: *** cannot open jobserver /tmp/GMfifo279169: No such file or directory.  Stop.

See build log for details:
  /root/.spack/stage/spack-stage-gcc-10.3.0-46nt4agntyurpc5u7wq7bh5odst6scvp/spack-build-out.txt

FATAL:   While performing build: while running engine: exit status 1

This issue can be avoided by updating singularity to it's latest version. It can also be worked around by manually specifying to install the concerned program with the [email protected] dependency, in this case: spack install [email protected] ^[email protected]