Boost related problems installing

I am trying to get esys-particle built for the framework spack (https://spack.io/) in order to make installation on HPC easier.

I have specified "--with-boot=<path_to_boost_prefix>". The error I have been receiving is thus:

Shortened Version
"""
1 error found in build log:
     570 no...
     571 /home/las_djorton/spack/opt/spack/linux-fedora33-skylake/gcc-10.2.1/boost-1.76.0-7ayd4mkrgzgjaois6dmrl7qttim4gwp5/libboost_python3--mt-d-1_76-py38.so ...
     572 no...
     573 /libboost_python3--mt-d-1_76-py38.so ...
     574 no...
     575 no
  >> 576 configure: error: cannot find the flags to link with Boost python
"""
I do have an extended error file that looks something like this:
"""
checking boost/python.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/python.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/python.hpp... yes
checking for the Boost python library... /home/las_djorton/spack/opt/spack/linux-fedora33-skylake/gcc-10.2.1/boost-1.76.0-7ayd4mkrgzgjaois6dmrl7qttim4gwp5/lib/libboost_python.so ...
no...
/home/las_djorton/spack/opt/spack/linux-fedora33-skylake/gcc-10.2.1/boost-1.76.0-7ayd4mkrgzgjaois6dmrl7qttim4gwp5/libboost_python.so ...
no...
/libboost_python.so ...
no...
/home/las_djorton/spack/opt/spack/linux-fedora33-skylake/gcc-10.2.1/boost-1.76.0-7ayd4mkrgzgjaois6dmrl7qttim4gwp5/lib/libboost_python-py38.so ...
no...
/home/las_djorton/spack/opt/spack/linux-fedora33-skylake/gcc-10.2.1/boost-1.76.0-7ayd4mkrgzgjaois6dmrl7qttim4gwp5/libboost_python-py38.so ...
no...
/libboost_python-py38.so ...
no...
/home/las_djorton/spack/opt/spack/linux-fedora33-skylake/gcc-10.2.1/boost-1.76.0-7ayd4mkrgzgjaois6dmrl7qttim4gwp5/lib/libboost_python-mt.so ...
no...
"""
but I think you can get the picture from just a few of those errors.

My guess is this is a problem related to using a newer boost? Somewhere along they might've switched file structure. I got gengeo to work using boost 1.76.0 so I figured it may be possible to get esys-particle to run with it too.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.