ImportError: No module named mesonbuild

[agauniyal]

After #465, I tried doing it this way :

  # meson
  - wget https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/0.30.0/meson_0.30.0.tar.gz
  - tar -xvf meson_0.30.0.tar.gz
  - cd meson-0.30.0
  - sudo python3 setup.py install --prefix=/usr
  - sudo ln -s /usr/bin/meson.py /usr/bin/meson

and when executing meson build command on my project directory, it results in error -

$ meson build

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/meson", line 17, in <module>

    from mesonbuild import mesonmain

ImportError: No module named mesonbuild

[agauniyal]

To reproduce, you can see - https://github.com/agauniyal/rang

[jpakkane]

Don't ever install anything to /usr without using system packages. It is highly unlikely to work and can break stuff unexpectedly.

If you just want Meson installation, clone the Git repo (possibly doing git checkout 0.30.0 or equivalent) and run Meson directly from that.

[agauniyal]

I guess travis won't let me do that, it will jump to my directory as soon as build step is encountered. Or I would've to clone inside my project and I don't want to do that at this moment.