Apple M3 Pro cannot build PyMuPDF==1.20.2 any more

[R4Ajeti]

Description of the bug

My problem is that I cannot install PyMuPDF version 1.20.2
pip install --verbose PyMuPDF==1.20.2 > pip_install_log.txt 2>&1

My full logs are here:
pip_install_log.txt

More info about: brew info mupdf swig freetype
are here:

==> mupdf: stable 1.23.11 (bottled), HEAD
Lightweight PDF and XPS viewer
https://mupdf.com/
Conflicts with:
mupdf-tools (because mupdf and mupdf-tools install the same binaries)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mupdf/1.23.11 (107 files, 48.3MB) *
Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-03-11 at 05:11:28
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/m/mupdf.rb
License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔
Required: freetype ✔, gumbo-parser ✔, harfbuzz ✔, jbig2dec ✔, jpeg-turbo ✔, mujs ✔, openjpeg ✔, openssl@3 ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: ...
install-on-request: ...
build-error: 0 ..

==> swig: stable 4.2.1 (bottled), HEAD
Generate scripting interfaces to C/C++ code
https://www.swig.org/
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/swig/4.2.1 (829 files, 5.7MB) *
Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-03-11 at 05:03:14
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/s/swig.rb
License: GPL-3.0-or-later
==> Dependencies
Required: pcre2 ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: ...
install-on-request: ...
build-error: 21 ...

==> freetype: stable 2.13.2 (bottled)
Software library to render fonts
https://www.freetype.org/
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/freetype/2.13.2 (67 files, 2.4MB) *
Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-02-10 at 20:33:37
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/f/freetype.rb
License: FTL
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔
Required: libpng ✔
==> Analytics
install: ...
install-on-request: ...
build-error: 0 ...

How to reproduce the bug

Buy a Macbook M3 Pro install pyenv install python 3.12.1 create environment and try to build PyMuPDF==1.20.2

PyMuPDF version

Built from source

Operating system

MacOS

Python version

3.12

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

PyMuPDF 1.20.2 is very old and unsupported.

Please try the latest release, currently 1.23.26, for example install with: pip install pymupdf.

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

I'll close this now. Please reopen if you find a problem with the current release.