Re: meson complains about "broken python installation"

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 02:53:44PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> At some point in the last month a meson change landed, and now
> when meson runs it complains:
> 
>  WARNING: Broken python installation detected. Python files installed
>  by Meson might not be found by python interpreter.
> 
> There's nothing in the meson log here that says what it's
> complaining about:
> 
> 
> Build machine cpu: x86_64
> Host machine cpu family: x86_64
> Host machine cpu: x86_64
> Target machine cpu family: x86_64
> Target machine cpu: x86_64
> Program sh found: YES (/bin/sh)
> Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3)
> WARNING: Broken python installation detected. Python files installed
> by Meson might not be found by python interpreter.
> Program bzip2 found: YES (/bin/bzip2)
> Sanity testing C++ compiler: c++ -m64 -mcx16
> Is cross compiler: False.
> 
> I didn't pass any --python option to configure, and this is
> a fresh build in a newly created build directory. Host is
> x86-64 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic). /usr/bin/python is
> Python 2.7.17 (which we do not use) and /usr/bin/python3
> is Python 3.6.9.
> 
> Any idea what meson is complaning about ?

The source code emitting this warning message has a comment
pointing to:

  https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8739

It seems that there is something broken about Python on Debian but
can't say i especially understand the bug report discussion there.


Regards,
Daniel
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