The following worked for me. sudo apt remove meson pip3 install --user meson
Best, Jim Raykowski On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM Andras Timar <tima...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I used --enable-python=fully-internal. That uses internal Python for the > build. It is a good workaround until somebody fixes the build. > > Best regards, > Andras Timar > > On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM Jeff Melton <melma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone - >> I've been successfully building libreoffice for a while now on my Linux >> Mint setups with very few issues that I've been able to resolve myself. >> Today (*May 10 2025) for the first time (Last successful build on this >> was a week or so ago) I encountered the following partial output when >> running ./autogen.sh after a git pull -r: >> >> *....* >> *checking which TLS/SSL and cryptographic implementation to use... NSS* >> *checking which sane header to use... internal* >> *checking which icu to use... internal* >> *checking whether to enable breakpad... no* >> *checking which orcus to use... internal* >> *checking which graphite to use... internal* >> *checking which harfbuzz to use... internal* >> *checking for meson.py... no* >> *checking for meson... /usr/bin/meson* >> *checking whether meson can be run with "/usr/bin/python >> /usr/bin/meson"... usage: meson runpython [-h] [-c] script_file ...* >> *meson runpython: error: the following arguments are required: >> script_file, script_args* >> *no* >> *configure: error: meson incompatible with the specified python. Try >> using a different python runtime or a plain release of meson by adding >> PYTHON=/other/python.version and/or MESON=/path/to/meson.py to >> autogen.input* >> *Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 333.* >> >> ..after which It failed. >> I have minimal autogen.input as follows: >> >> *--enable-dbgutil* >> *--without-doxygen* >> >> A few weeks ago I did install meson, which resolved a "missing meson" >> issue. Now it seems to have issues with the version of python on my system >> Here are the versions installed: >> *$ sudo apt list meson* >> *[sudo] password for * >> *Listing... Done* >> *meson/jammy,jammy,now 0.61.2-1 all [installed]* >> *$ /usr/bin/python* >> *Python 3.10.12 (main, Feb 4 2025, 14:57:36) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux* >> *Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.* >> *>>> quit()* >> >> >> >> Any ideas what I can do to resolve the issue? >> >> Thanks! >> Jeff Melton >> >
