Merge pull request #18756 from boegel/eb481

include additional PRs that got merged last-minute in v4.8.1 release notes

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ update/bugfix release
   - add extensions to recent R-bundle-Bioconductors easyconfigs: UCell (#18281), decoupleR (#18399, #18552), RnBeads (#18682)
   - add extensions to recent R easyconfigs: tabletools (#18510), flextables (#18719)
   - add test for easyconfig file permissions (#18647)
+  - simplify build and install options for Ghostscript (#18750)
 - various bug fixes, including:
   - set `$JULIA_DEPOT_PATH` in Julia easyconfigs with default value (#17976)
   - remove superflous dependencies from Horovod easyconfig on top of PyTorch (#18262)
@@ -90,12 +91,13 @@ update/bugfix release
   - add patch to fix flaky `test_jit_legacy` test for PyTorch 1.13.1 (#18500)
   - add alternative checksum for Extrae v4.0.4 (#18564)
   - remove appending of `$__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_DIRS` in recent Mesa easyconfigs, since Mesa easyblock now appends to it (#18630)
+  - correct `dirs` in `sanity_check_paths` in template easyconfig (#18635)
   - set `$MUJOCO_PY_FORCE_CPU` to avoid that mujoco-py checks for nvidia-smi and aborts installation because `/usr/lib/nvidia` is not in `$LD_LIBRARY_PATH` (#18641)
   - fix sanity check for ccache by setting `LC_ALL=C` (#18677)
   - make Autoconf a build dep for tRNAscan-SE + add missing Perl dependency (#18680)
   - strip out hardcoded `-march=native` used by RapidJSON 1.1.0 (#18725)
   - disable detection of Dbus broker for `at-spi2-core` (#18727)
-  - make sure that 'moduleclass' is set in all easyconfig files (and is not set to default 'base' moduleclass) (#18739)
+  - make sure that 'moduleclass' is set in all easyconfig files (and is not set to default `base` moduleclass) (#18739)
   - add patch for MPFR 4.1.0 to fix failing tsprintf test with glibc >= 2.37 (#18746)
   - add patch for PMIx 4.x to use `lchown` so links are not followed (#18755)
 - other changes: