Fix CI failure due to manylinux2014 and rhel8 incompatibility, deprecated MS server 2019 & intel-oneapi download errors

[3manifold]

Description

manylinux2014 and rhel8 incompatibility

The manylinux2014 images (see .github/workflows/ci.yml) are based on CentOS 7, which is a RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) derivative. In specific:

manylinux2014 → Based on CentOS 7
CentOS 7 → Based on RHEL 7

Nevertheless, python/tools/prepare_build_environment_linux.sh assumes RHEL 8 repository (see yum-config-manager --add-repo https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo).

This causes build-python-wheels (ubuntu-22.04, auto64) CI job to fail: the issue is that the libnccl package requires a newer version of libstdc++ that supports CXXABI_1.3.9, but the system (which appears to be CentOS 7 based on the gcc version 4.8.5-44.el7) has an older version of libstdc++.

The issue is possibly caused by the changes made in #1803 .

Error Log

...
  --> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit) for package: libnccl-2.27.6-1+cuda12.9.x86_64
  --> Running transaction check
  ---> Package cpp.x86_64 0:4.8.5-44.el7 will be installed
  ---> Package libnccl.x86_64 0:2.27.6-1+cuda12.9 will be installed
  --> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit) for package: libnccl-2.27.6-1+cuda12.9.x86_64
  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
  Error: Package: libnccl-2.27.6-1+cuda12.9.x86_64 (cuda-rhel8-x86_64)
             Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit)
   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
...

Unsupported Microsoft Server 2022 MSVC version

Had to install the preexisting (ms server 2019) compiler version. CUDA does not support Microsoft Server 2022 MSVC version in practice even if the error message states ..2022 (inclusive)..

Error Log

...
fatal error C1189: #error: -- unsupported Microsoft Visual Studio version! Only the versions between 2017 and 2022 (inclusive) are supported!
...

intel-oneapi download error

Download command curl --netrc-optional -L -nv -o webimage.exe https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/irc_nas/19078/w_BaseKit_p_2023.0.0.25940_offline.exe continuously fails (there are many reports on the internet on that wrt intel-oneapi). In general any URL having the following pattern (https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/irc_nas) fails to download after some point. Fixed by replacing with a modern api version.

resolves #1906

[3manifold]

Depending on the oneAPI version, .dll location may vary. This way one does not need to provide a hard-coded path.

[3manifold]

yum install -y intel-oneapi-mkl-devel-$ONEAPI_VERSION could be also changed to intel-oneapi-mkl-devel-2025.1 in python/tools/prepare_build_environment_linux.sh to match python/tools/prepare_build_environment_windows.sh if needed.