Building ROS2 Rolling from source: issues with gfortran / lit

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I am trying to compile ROS2 from source on Docker (for development purposes) but am running into several issues while doing so. Any pointers at what might be wrong here?

• Operating System:
  • Ubuntu22.04 (Jammy)
• Installation type:
  • source
• Version or commit hash:
  • ros2.repos commit

Steps to reproduce issue

Essentially follow the instructions at Linux Development Setup for Rolling. I created a Dockerfile that executes these in this gist

Expected behavior

Build completes and the example can be run inside the container

Actual behavior

colcon build --symlink-install fails at FortranCInterface which seems to be a CMake dependency.

Before that, I get several variations of this error which seems unrelated:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
     import distutils.core
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/distutils/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
     from . import ccompiler
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 9, in <module>
     from distutils.ccompiler import (
 ImportError: cannot import name 'compiler_class' from partially initialized module 'distutils.ccompiler' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/distutils/ccompiler.py)
 [1.143s] ERROR:colcon.colcon_core.package_identification:Exception in package identification extension 'python_setup_py' in 'lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy': Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-c', "import sys;from setuptools.extern.packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet;from distutils.core import run_setup;dist = run_setup(    'setup.py', script_args=('--dry-run',), stop_after='config');skip_keys = ('cmdclass', 'distclass', 'ext_modules', 'metadata');data = {    key: value for key, value in dist.__dict__.items()     if (        not key.startswith('_') and         not callable(value) and         key not in skip_keys and         key not in dist.display_option_names    )};data['metadata'] = {    k: v for k, v in dist.metadata.__dict__.items()     if k not in ('license_files', 'provides_extras')};sys.stdout.buffer.write(repr(data).encode('utf-8'))"]' returned non-zero exit status 1.
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/colcon_core/package_identification/__init__.py", line 142, in _identify
     retval = extension.identify(_reused_descriptor_instance)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/colcon_python_setup_py/package_identification/python_setup_py.py", line 48, in identify
     config = get_setup_information(setup_py)
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/colcon_python_setup_py/package_identification/python_setup_py.py", line 241, in get_setup_information
     _setup_information_cache[hashable_env] = _get_setup_information(
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/colcon_python_setup_py/package_identification/python_setup_py.py", line 281, in _get_setup_information
     result = subprocess.run(
   File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 524, in run
     raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
 subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-c', "import sys;from setuptools.extern.packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet;from distutils.core import run_setup;dist = run_setup(    'setup.py', script_args=('--dry-run',), stop_after='config');skip_keys = ('cmdclass', 'distclass', 'ext_modules', 'metadata');data = {    key: value for key, value in dist.__dict__.items()     if (        not key.startswith('_') and         not callable(value) and         key not in skip_keys and         key not in dist.display_option_names    )};data['metadata'] = {    k: v for k, v in dist.metadata.__dict__.items()     if k not in ('license_files', 'provides_extras')};sys.stdout.buffer.write(repr(data).encode('utf-8'))"]' returned non-zero exit status 1.

Compilation finally fails with the following:

 Starting >>> IntelFortranImplicit
 -- stderr: FortranCInterface
 CMake Error at CMakeLists ...