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Suggestions for improving recipes and avoiding build errors

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by tracing how extra_build_args and configure_args are accumulated and passed through the Python recipe and other recipes. Reproduce the reported interaction by testing a scipy build with matplotlib included, then verify that arguments from one recipe no longer break another recipe's build.

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Description

Priority: Critical Priority: High Status: has PR

Does it make sense to force clear various arguments?

extra_build_args
configure_args (used in the Python recipe and possibly in other recipes as well)

Since these lists accumulate arguments, this can break other recipes (like, for example, the scipy build breaks if you add matplotlib to the build).

And such errors are difficult to track down when testing the build of a specific recipe.

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