orthofinder and MCL (markov clustering) does not compile on M1

[stephrom]

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• What you were trying to do (and why)
  I'm trying to install orthofinder locally on a Macbook pro M1. All dependencies (diamond, fastme) if installed separately works fine, except MCL. The diamond and fastme that were installed with orthofinder were pre-compiled executables that didn't work. Creating softlinks pointing to the pre-installed, independently, solved the issue. Except for mcl.
• What happened (include command output)
  brew install mcl
  ==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json
  ########################################################################################################################################### 100.0%
  ==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
  ########################################################################################################################################### 100.0%
  ==> Fetching brewsci/bio/mcl
  ==> Downloading https://micans.org/mcl/src/mcl-14-137.tar.gz
  Already downloaded: /Users/strom/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/2270c1e35b168dd765d6a0cec7fcbe7de4f6a0f971073bf1caa3e3d44737d6cb--mcl-14-137.tar.gz
  ==> Installing mcl from brewsci/bio
  ==> ./configure --enable-blast
  Last 15 lines from /Users/strom/Library/Logs/Homebrew/mcl/01.configure:
  checking float.h presence... yes
  checking for float.h... yes
  checking limits.h usability... yes
  checking limits.h presence... yes
  checking for limits.h... yes
  checking malloc.h usability... no
  checking malloc.h presence... no
  checking for malloc.h... no
  checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
  checking for string.h... (cached) yes
  checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
  checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
  checking for size_t... yes
  checking build system type... configure: error: /bin/sh autofoo/config.sub -apple-darwin23.5.0 failed
  configure: WARNING: cache variable ac_cv_build contains a newline

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• What you expected to happen
• Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew install commands)

downloading the original : wget https://www.micans.org/mcl/src/mcl-22-282.tar.gz
setenv CC /opt/homebrew/bin/gcc
setenv CPATH /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include

./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /opt/local/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/Users/strom/Downloads/mcl-22-282/autofoo/missing: Unknown --is-lightweight' option Try /Users/strom/Downloads/mcl-22-282/autofoo/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /opt/local/bin/gmkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... /opt/homebrew/bin/gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in /Users/strom/Downloads/mcl-22-282': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See config.log' for more details

Formula additions or changes

There is an issue compiling the code. I guess the same happens when installing from brew

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config.log