Containerized Third party build issues

[biagas]

Describe the bug

There are a few issues building some third party libraries in our containers:

Mili: RockyLinux 8 (gcc-10.3) , RockyLinux 9 (gcc -13.3)

Building Mili . . . (~2 minutes)
gcc  -m64 -fPIC  -O2 -O4   -DHAVEINT8     -o src/buildinfo.o\
         -DMILI_VERSION="\"V23_02_00\"" \
         -DCOMPILE_CMD="\"gcc  -m64 -fPIC  -O2 -O4   -DHAVEINT8     \"" \
         -DLINK_CMD="\"gcc  -m64 -fPIC  -O2 -O4    \"" \
         -DMAKE_CMD="\"opt\"" \
         -c src/buildinfo.c
gcc  -m64 -fPIC  -O2 -O4   src/buildinfo.o -o src/buildinfo
rm -f src/t.h
./src/buildinfo > src/t.h
/bin/sh: line 1:  7615 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ./src/buildinfo > src/t.h
make: *** [Makefile:336: src/buildinfo.h] Error 139
Installing Mili . . .

PIDX: Ubuntu24 (gcc 14.2)

/home/visit/PIDX-0.9.3/pidx/PIDX_variable.c: In function ‘PIDX_variable_read_particle_data_layout’:
/home/visit/PIDX-0.9.3/pidx/PIDX_variable.c:219:72: error: assignment to ‘unsigned char **’ from incompatible pointer type ‘void **’ [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
  219 |   variable->sim_patch[variable->sim_patch_count]->read_particle_buffer = write_to_this_buffer;
      |                                                                        ^
make[2]: *** [pidx/CMakeFiles/pidx.dir/build.make:1210: pidx/CMakeFiles/pidx.dir/PIDX_variable.c.o] Error 1

CFITSIO: Ubuntu24 (gcc 14.2)

Configuring CFITSIO . . .
+ env CXX=g++ CC=gcc 'CFLAGS= -m64 -fPIC -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration' 'CXXFLAGS= -m64 -fPIC  -O2' ./configure --prefix=/home/visit/third-party/cfitsio/3006/linux-x86_64_gcc-14.2
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for uname... 1
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  -m64 -fPIC -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
+ set +x
Building CFITSIO . . . (~2 minutes)
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
CFITSIO build failed. Giving up 

AdvIO: Ubuntu24 (gcc 14.2)

Invoking command to configure AdvIO
+ env CXX=g++ CC=gcc 'CFLAGS= -m64 -fPIC -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration' 'CXXFLAGS= -m64 -fPIC  -O2' ./configure --prefix=/home/visit/third-party/AdvIO/1.2/linux-x86_64_gcc-14.2 --disable-gtktest
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
+ set +x
Building AdvIO . . . (~1 minute)
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.