Improve recipes, including for AL9

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/cairo/package.py

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ def configure_args(self):
         args.extend(self.enable_or_disable("gobject"))
         args.extend(self.enable_or_disable("ft"))
         args.extend(self.enable_or_disable("fc"))
+        args.append("--disable-dependency-tracking")
 
         return args
 

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libunwind/package.py

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ class Libunwind(AutotoolsPackage):
     depends_on("zlib", type="link", when="+zlib")
 
     conflicts("platform=darwin", msg="Non-GNU libunwind needs ELF libraries Darwin does not have")
+    conflicts("%gcc@:4.9", when="@1.6:", msg="libunwind >=1.6 requires stdatomic.h")
 
     provides("unwind")
 

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/perl/package.py

@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ class Perl(Package):  # Perl doesn't use Autotools, it should subclass Package
     variant("shared", default=True, description="Build a shared libperl.so library")
     variant("threads", default=True, description="Build perl with threads support")
     variant("open", default=True, description="Support open.pm")
+    variant("opcode", default=True, description="Support Opcode.pm")
 
     resource(
         name="cpanm",
@@ -200,6 +201,10 @@ def determine_variants(cls, exes, version):
                 fail_on_error=False,
             )
             variants += "+open" if perl.returncode == 0 else "~open"
+            # this is just to detect incomplete installs
+            # normally perl installs Opcode.pm
+            perl("-e", "use Opcode", output=os.devnull, error=os.devnull, fail_on_error=False)
+            variants += "+opcode" if perl.returncode == 0 else "~opcode"
             return variants
 
     # On a lustre filesystem, patch may fail when files

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/postgresql/package.py

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class Postgresql(AutotoolsPackage):
     depends_on("libedit", when="lineedit=libedit")
     depends_on("openssl")
     depends_on("tcl", when="+tcl")
-    depends_on("perl", when="+perl")
+    depends_on("perl+opcode", when="+perl")
     depends_on("python", when="+python")
     depends_on("libxml2", when="+xml")
 

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/range-v3/package.py

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import shutil
 
 from spack.package import *
-from spack.pkg.builtin.boost import Boost
 
 
 class RangeV3(CMakePackage):
@@ -67,13 +66,16 @@ class RangeV3(CMakePackage):
 
     depends_on("cmake@3.6:", type="build")
     depends_on("doxygen+graphviz", type="build", when="+doc")
-    depends_on("boost@1.59.0: cxxstd=14", type="build", when="+examples cxxstd=14")
-    depends_on("boost@1.59.0: cxxstd=17", type="build", when="+examples cxxstd=17")
-
-    # TODO: replace this with an explicit list of components of Boost,
-    # for instance depends_on('boost +filesystem')
-    # See https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/22303 for reference
-    depends_on(Boost.with_default_variants, type="build")
+    depends_on(
+        "boost+date_time+program_options@1.59.0: cxxstd=14",
+        type="build",
+        when="+examples cxxstd=14",
+    )
+    depends_on(
+        "boost+date_time+program_options@1.59.0: cxxstd=17",
+        type="build",
+        when="+examples cxxstd=17",
+    )
 
     # Fix reported upstream issue
     # https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3/issues/1196 per PR