Matplotlib 3.5.1 is crashes at the start of its configuration with the error in the P.S. The critical line seems to be this one:

ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/scratch/build/maneage/software/installed/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py)

This seems to be a core change in Python 3.10 that is not yet supported in Matplotlib.

Strangely, the old Matplotlib 3.3.0 compiles without a problem with Python 3.10! As a result, Matplotlib will not be updated in the ongoing attempt to update Maneage software. We'll wait until it can easily be built in Python 3.10 or someone volunteers with a patch.

P.S. full log of crash

BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
      python: yes [3.10.0 (default, Dec 29 2021, 16:34:57) [GCC 11.2.0]]
    platform: yes [linux]
       tests: no  [skipping due to configuration]
      macosx: no  [Mac OS-X only]

/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/__init__.py:148: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup_requires is deprecated. Supply build dependencies using PEP 517 pyproject.toml build-requires.
  warnings.warn(
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/__main__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pip._internal import main as _main  # isort:skip # noqa
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 8, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 12, in <module>
    from pip._internal.commands import (
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/commands/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pip._internal.commands.completion import CompletionCommand
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/commands/completion.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.base_command import Command
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 25, in <module>
    from pip._internal.index import PackageFinder
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_internal/index.py", line 14, in <module>
    from pip._vendor import html5lib, requests, six
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_vendor/html5lib/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from .html5parser import HTMLParser, parse, parseFragment
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_vendor/html5lib/html5parser.py", line 8, in <module>
    from . import _tokenizer
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_vendor/html5lib/_tokenizer.py", line 16, in <module>
    from ._trie import Trie
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_vendor/html5lib/_trie/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .py import Trie as PyTrie
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_vendor/html5lib/_trie/py.py", line 6, in <module>
    from ._base import Trie as ABCTrie
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip-19.0.2-py3.10.egg/pip/_vendor/html5lib/_trie/_base.py", line 3, in <module>
    from collections import Mapping
ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/collections/__init__.py)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/installer.py", line 75, in fetch_build_egg
    subprocess.check_call(cmd)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 369, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/BDIR/software/installed/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpy_q3ah6x', '--quiet', 'setuptools_scm_git_archive']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/dev/shm/maneage-maneage-mohammad/matplotlib-3.5.1/setup.py", line 273, in <module>
    setup(  # Finally, pass this all along to setuptools to do the heavy lifting.
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/__init__.py", line 158, in setup
    _install_setup_requires(attrs)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/__init__.py", line 153, in _install_setup_requires
    dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 806, in fetch_build_eggs
    resolved_dists = pkg_resources.working_set.resolve(
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 766, in resolve
    dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1051, in best_match
    return self.obtain(req, installer)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1063, in obtain
    return installer(requirement)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 877, in fetch_build_egg
    return fetch_build_egg(self, req)
  File "/BDIR/software/installed/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools-58.3.0-py3.10.egg/setuptools/installer.py", line 77, in fetch_build_egg
    raise DistutilsError(str(e)) from e
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/BDIR/software/installed/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpy_q3ah6x', '--quiet', 'setuptools_scm_git_archive']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
make: *** [reproduce/software/make/python.mk:428: /BDIR/software/installed/version-info/python/matplotlib-3.5.1] Error 1
make: Target 'all' not remade because of errors.