[BUG] ImportError of GLIBCXX in Catalyst frontend

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Issue description

I am experiencing issues when importing Catalyst that seem to depend on where and how the library is imported. It might be specific to my installation (I had to hack around a bit to get it to pick up clang), but I thought I should report because the failure seems erratic. I think it is related to something in the frontend.

• Expected behavior: (What you expect to happen)

Importing Catalyst from both shell, interpreter, and Jupyter notebook should work without errors.

• Actual behavior: (What actually happens)

When I fire up an interpreter, I can do

>>> from catalyst import qjit

or

>>> import catalyst

without issue.

If I have a Python script, and begin it with

from catalyst import qjit

it works when this is the only line in the script, but in other contexts (my Shor implementation), I receive the following Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/olivia/Code/shortalyst-dev/full_jit_working.py", line 10, in <module>
    from catalyst import cond, measure, qjit, for_loop, while_loop
  File "/home/olivia/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
    from catalyst.compilation_pipelines import QJIT, CompileOptions, qjit
  File "/home/olivia/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/compilation_pipelines.py", line 40, in <module>
    from catalyst.compiler import CompileOptions, Compiler
  File "/home/olivia/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/compiler.py", line 30, in <module>
    from mlir_quantum.compiler_driver import run_compiler_driver
ImportError: /home/olivia/.conda/envs/catalyst/bin/../lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /home/olivia/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/../../mlir/build/python_packages/quantum/mlir_quantum/compiler_driver.so)

However, adding a line above this import that does import catalyst solves the problem

In a Jupyter Notebook, neither version works, and I get a similar but more detailed error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[2], line 1
----> 1 import catalyst
      3 from catalyst import qjit

File ~/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/__init__.py:64
     58 sys.modules["mlir_quantum._mlir_libs._quantumDialects.quantum"] = types.ModuleType(
     59     "mlir_quantum._mlir_libs._quantumDialects.quantum"
     60 )
     63 from catalyst.ag_utils import AutoGraphError, autograph_source
---> 64 from catalyst.compilation_pipelines import QJIT, CompileOptions, qjit
     65 from catalyst.pennylane_extensions import (
     66     adjoint,
     67     cond,
   (...)
     74     while_loop,
     75 )
     76 from catalyst.utils.exceptions import CompileError

File ~/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/compilation_pipelines.py:40
     38 import catalyst
     39 from catalyst.ag_utils import run_autograph
---> 40 from catalyst.compiler import CompileOptions, Compiler
     41 from catalyst.jax_tracer import trace_to_mlir
     42 from catalyst.pennylane_extensions import QFunc

File ~/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/compiler.py:30
     27 from io import TextIOWrapper
     28 from typing import Any, List, Optional
---> 30 from mlir_quantum.compiler_driver import run_compiler_driver
     32 from catalyst._configuration import INSTALLED
     33 from catalyst.utils.exceptions import CompileError

ImportError: /home/olivia/.conda/envs/catalyst/bin/../lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found (required by /home/olivia/Code/catalyst/frontend/catalyst/../../mlir/build/python_packages/quantum/mlir_quantum/compiler_driver.so)

• Reproduces how often: (What percentage of the time does it reproduce?)

Erratic (see description above)

• System information: (post the output of import pennylane as qml; qml.about())

Running on Ubuntu 22.04.

Catalyst is installed from source off of main branch commit 422dc14879071039a9a64eb781627b6b441174de.

Clang++ is version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1.

Output of qml.about() (packages installed from Catalyst's requirements.txt file):

Name: PennyLane
Version: 0.32.0
Summary: PennyLane is a Python quantum machine learning library by Xanadu Inc.
Home-page: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane
Author: 
Author-email: 
License: Apache License 2.0
Location: /home/olivia/.conda/envs/catalyst/lib/python3.11/site-packages
Requires: appdirs, autograd, autoray, cachetools, networkx, numpy, pennylane-lightning, requests, rustworkx, scipy, semantic-version, toml, typing-extensions
Required-by: pennylane-catalyst, PennyLane-Lightning

Platform info:           Linux-6.2.0-33-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Python version:          3.11.0
Numpy version:           1.23.5
Scipy version:           1.10.0
Installed devices:
- default.gaussian (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.mixed (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.qubit (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.qubit.autograd (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.qubit.jax (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.qubit.tf (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.qubit.torch (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- default.qutrit (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- null.qubit (PennyLane-0.32.0)
- lightning.qubit (PennyLane-Lightning-0.32.0)

Source code and tracebacks

N/A

Additional information

Let me know what else would be useful!