macOS builds randomly failing in pip release pipeline

[lorisercole]

The arm8-a macOS wheel builds stochastically fail at the Build wheel step.

Example errors:

ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64

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Last 10 log lines:
      __locale_localeconv in _localemodule.o
      __locale_localeconv in _localemodule.o
      __locale_localeconv in _localemodule.o
      __locale_localeconv in _localemodule.o
  "_libintl_textdomain", referenced from:
      __locale_textdomain in _localemodule.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

segfault

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Last 10 log lines:
  File "/private/tmp/python-build.20260408002629.60913/Python-3.10.19/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 287, in _main
    return _bootstrap(
  File "/private/tmp/python-build.20260408002629.60913/Python-3.10.19/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 203, in _bootstrap
    return _run_pip([*args, *_PACKAGE_NAMES], additional_paths)
  File "/private/tmp/python-build.20260408002629.60913/Python-3.10.19/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 104, in _run_pip
    return subprocess.run(cmd, check=True).returncode
  File "/private/tmp/python-build.20260408002629.60913/Python-3.10.19/Lib/subprocess.py", line 526, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/private/tmp/python-build.20260408002629.60913/Python-3.10.19/python.exe', '-W', 'ignore::DeprecationWarning', '-c', '\nimport runpy\nimport sys\nsys.path = [\'/tmp/tmp8ajl1neo/setuptools-79.0.1-py3-none-any.whl\', \'/tmp/tmp8ajl1neo/pip-23.0.1-py3-none-any.whl\'] + sys.path\nsys.argv[1:] = [\'install\', \'--no-cache-dir\', \'--no-index\', \'--find-links\', \'/tmp/tmp8ajl1neo\', \'--root\', \'/\', \'--upgrade\', \'setuptools\', \'pip\']\nrunpy.run_module("pip", run_name="__main__", alter_sys=True)\n']' died with .
make: *** [install] Error 1

The pipeline automatically retries this step but always fail because of this:

Downloading HDF5 1.13.0...
hdf5-1.13.0.tar.bz2: OK
mv: rename hdf5-1.13.0 to hdf5/hdf5-1.13.0: Directory not empty

Restarting the failing jobs normally resolves the issue.