I installed meson with command `guix package -i meson` * Error: $ meson --version
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/gnu/store/n53zdnl4l3gm9sg15bfwxp0wdrwrvhg4-meson-0.44.0/bin/.meson-real", line 17, in <module> from mesonbuild import mesonmain, mesonlib File "/gnu/store/n53zdnl4l3gm9sg15bfwxp0wdrwrvhg4-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 18, in <module> from . import environment, interpreter, mesonlib File "/gnu/store/n53zdnl4l3gm9sg15bfwxp0wdrwrvhg4-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mesonbuild/environment.py", line 17, in <module> from . import coredata File "/gnu/store/n53zdnl4l3gm9sg15bfwxp0wdrwrvhg4-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mesonbuild/coredata.py", line 20, in <module> from .mesonlib import MesonException, commonpath File "/gnu/store/n53zdnl4l3gm9sg15bfwxp0wdrwrvhg4-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonlib.py", line 60, in <module> meson_command = python_command + [detect_meson_py_location()] File "/gnu/store/n53zdnl4l3gm9sg15bfwxp0wdrwrvhg4-meson-0.44.0/lib/python3.5/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. I'm currently using Guix on top of Fedora 26. The installed version of meson is 0.44.0. * Possible cause: From /mesonlib.py/: line 47~51, we have: #+BEGIN_BLOCK python # The only thing remaining is to try to find the bundled executable and # pray distro packagers have not moved it. fname = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'meson.py') if not os.path.exists(fname): raise RuntimeError('Could not determine how to run Meson. Please file a bug with details.') #+END_BLOCK which means meson will try to find the meson.py script at startup, but it seems Guix has renamed the this file with the new file name *.meson-real* and warp it with a shell script /meson/ in bin.