[debhelper-devel] Bug#864369: Bug#864369: debhelper: meson

[Peter Pentchev]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 01:12:42PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.4
> 
> I am trying to use debhelper's new meson support to build a new
> version of gnome-tweak-tool but it's failing. It obviously works for
> some other packages though.
> 
> https://git.launchpad.net/~jbicha/gnome-tweak-tool
> 
> dh build --with gnome,python3 --buildsystem=meson
>    dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=meson
>    dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=meson
>    dh_autoreconf -O--buildsystem=meson
>    dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=meson
>     meson .. --wrap-mode=nodownload --buildtype=plain --prefix=/usr
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> --libexecdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> dh_auto_configure: meson .. --wrap-mode=nodownload --buildtype=plain
> --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
> --libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu failed
> to to execute: No such file or directory
> debian/rules:6: recipe for target 'build' failed

Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't debhelper be trying to
execute "meson", and would the problem not be fixed by specifying
"meson" as a build dependency?

G'luck,
Peter

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