VIPS 8.13.3 Meson build and test succeeded but meson install fails

[tvngithub]

Following the instruction to build VIPS on Ubuntu 22.04, I succeeded to build and test but the installation failed with

~/vips-8.13.3/build$ sudo meson install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 146, in run
return options.run_func(options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 797, in run
b = build.load(opts.wd)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/build.py", line 2868, in load
obj = pickle.load(f)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mesonbuild.utils'

ERROR: Unhandled python exception

This is a Meson bug and should be reported!

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First time for me to use Meson
Has anyone seen the same error and have a solution? It seems that the mesonbuild.utils is missing.

Thank you very much.
-tom

[lovell]

It looks like you're using sudo and therefore require root-like access. How was meson installed? Make sure it's available system-wide, e.g. via pip3 install meson.

I also note you're not using the latest version of libvips, please upgrade to the latest if possible as many bugs will have been fixed since.

[tvngithub]

Thank you very much for your note. I found the fix for the problem and that was the difference between the mesa version installed via pip and the version that comes with Ubuntu 22.04. I removed mesa version that came with Ubuntu 22.04 and all is working.

What happened was the newest version installed with pip compiles and tests, but when I use "sudo" the version that came with Ubuntu 22.04 was evoked.