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

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Message #89 received at 30761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 30761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30761] [PATCH staging 1/9] gnu: meson: Don't wrap the meson
 executable.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:16:39 +0100

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

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> It does mean that people installing meson in their profile will get
>> something missing-python-module errors, right?
>
> Meson actually propagates Python, which will set up PYTHONPATH.  So in a
> profile or environment it works just fine.  The only problem is when
> trying to invoke /gnu/store/...meson-0.45/bin/meson directly.

OK, perfect.

>> Should we do the wrapping differently?
>
> ISTR a discussion about a language-aware wrapper, which would solve
> this.  Then we could wrap it with PATH and PYTHONPATH and get rid of
> Python propagation.  But for now I think we're good :-)

Yes, future work!  :-)

Ludo’.

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