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[PATCH staging 0/9] Meson fixes (and some updates)

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 30761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30761] [PATCH staging 1/9] gnu: meson: Don't wrap the meson executable.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:01:35 +0100

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> Actually, I just checked; "meson" in master does not work at all,
> whether from the store or from a profile:
>
> $ guix environment --ad-hoc meson -- meson --help
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/gnu/store/lv22yqqnwaz7zjacmgqi8v18d9manr0y-meson-0.44.0/bin/.meson-real", line 17, in <module>
>     from mesonbuild import mesonmain, mesonlib
>   File "/gnu/store/lv22yqqnwaz7zjacmgqi8v18d9manr0y-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 18, in <module>
>     from . import environment, interpreter, mesonlib
>   File "/gnu/store/lv22yqqnwaz7zjacmgqi8v18d9manr0y-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mesonbuild/environment.py", line 17, in <module>
>     from . import coredata
>   File "/gnu/store/lv22yqqnwaz7zjacmgqi8v18d9manr0y-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mesonbuild/coredata.py", line 20, in <module>
>     from .mesonlib import MesonException, commonpath
>   File "/gnu/store/lv22yqqnwaz7zjacmgqi8v18d9manr0y-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonlib.py", line 60, in <module>
>     meson_command = python_command + [detect_meson_py_location()]
>   File "/gnu/store/lv22yqqnwaz7zjacmgqi8v18d9manr0y-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonlib.py", line 51, in detect_meson_py_location
>     raise RuntimeError('Could not determine how to run Meson. Please file a bug with details.')
> RuntimeError: Could not determine how to run Meson. Please file a bug with details.
>
> So we really need to drop the wrapper.

Indeed.

When we drop the wrapper it may fail, but it’d fail in a different way.
:-)

Ludo’.

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