Illegal instruction (core dumped) for vcfstats in vcflib 1.0.9

[kathoef]

I am installing vcflib from bioconda on our learning platform on behalf of a bioinformatics course teacher and the command vcfstats fails for them with an "Illegal instruction" error. Steps to reproduce:

$ conda create -n vcflib109 -c bioconda -c conda-forge vcflib
$ conda activate vcflib109
$ vcfstats SOMETHING12345_var.vcf
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
$ which vcfstats
/home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/vcfstats
$ ldd /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/vcfstats
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffde8685000)
	libhts.so.3 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/libhts.so.3 (0x00007f66a4cfb000)
	libvcflib.so.1 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/libvcflib.so.1 (0x00007f66a4c64000)
	libwfa2.so.0 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/libwfa2.so.0 (0x00007f66a4c35000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f66a4a52000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f66a4a37000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f66a4805000)
	libdeflate.so.0 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/./libdeflate.so.0 (0x00007f66a47ee000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/./liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f66a47c5000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/./libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f66a47b1000)
	libz.so.1 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/./libz.so.1 (0x00007f66a4796000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f66a46ad000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f66a46a8000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f66a46a3000)
	libgomp.so.1 => /home/jovyan/.conda/envs/vcflib109/bin/../lib/./libgomp.so.1 (0x00007f66a4667000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f66a4662000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f66a4e24000)
$ conda list --explicit
# This file may be used to create an environment using:
# $ conda create --name <env> --file <this file>
# platform: linux-64
@EXPLICIT
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/_libgcc_mutex-0.1-conda_forge.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/ca-certificates-2024.2.2-hbcca054_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/ld_impl_linux-64-2.40-hf3520f5_1.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libstdcxx-ng-13.2.0-hc0a3c3a_7.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch/tzdata-2024a-h0c530f3_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libgomp-13.2.0-h77fa898_7.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/_openmp_mutex-4.5-2_gnu.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libgcc-ng-13.2.0-h77fa898_7.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/bzip2-1.0.8-hd590300_5.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/c-ares-1.28.1-hd590300_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/jsoncpp-1.9.5-h4bd325d_1.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/keyutils-1.6.1-h166bdaf_0.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libdeflate-1.20-hd590300_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libev-4.33-hd590300_2.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libexpat-2.6.2-h59595ed_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libffi-3.4.2-h7f98852_5.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libnsl-2.0.1-hd590300_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libuuid-2.38.1-h0b41bf4_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libuv-1.48.0-hd590300_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libxcrypt-4.4.36-hd590300_1.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libzlib-1.2.13-h4ab18f5_6.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/ncurses-6.5-h59595ed_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/openssl-3.3.0-h4ab18f5_3.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/rhash-1.4.4-hd590300_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64/wfa2-lib-2.3.5-h4ac6f70_0.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/xz-5.2.6-h166bdaf_0.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libedit-3.1.20191231-he28a2e2_2.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libnghttp2-1.58.0-h47da74e_1.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libsqlite-3.45.3-h2797004_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libssh2-1.11.0-h0841786_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/perl-5.32.1-7_hd590300_perl5.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/readline-8.2-h8228510_1.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/tk-8.6.13-noxft_h4845f30_101.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/zstd-1.5.6-ha6fb4c9_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/krb5-1.21.2-h659d440_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/python-3.12.3-hab00c5b_0_cpython.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/libcurl-8.8.0-hca28451_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch/setuptools-70.0.0-pyhd8ed1ab_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch/wheel-0.43.0-pyhd8ed1ab_1.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/cmake-3.29.3-h91dbaaa_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64/htslib-1.20-h81da01d_0.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch/pip-24.0-pyhd8ed1ab_0.conda
https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64/eigen-3.2-3.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64/samtools-1.20-h50ea8bc_0.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64/tabixpp-1.1.2-h27d5293_2.tar.bz2
https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64/vcflib-1.0.9-hdcf5f25_6.tar.bz2

Installing the former version with vcflib==1.0.3 is the quick workaround I have chosen for now, but it would be most helpful if the vclib 1.0.9 bioconda release could be fixed. Maybe see also: vcflib/vcflib#401