Build failure: No such file or directory: '/usr/share/help/bg/gnome-calculator/absolute.page'
Hi gnome staff
I'm on Ubuntu 23.10 building gnome-calculator from source
git checkout tags/46.0
meson setup _build --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release
sudo ninja install -C _build
I'm getting this error:
Installing help/bg/absolute.page to /usr/share/help/bg/gnome-calculator
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ferran/.local/pipx/venvs/meson/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 186, in run
return options.run_func(options)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/ferran/.local/pipx/venvs/meson/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 863, in run
installer.do_install(datafilename)
File "/home/ferran/.local/pipx/venvs/meson/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 543, in do_install
self.install_targets(d, dm, destdir, fullprefix)
File "/home/ferran/.local/pipx/venvs/meson/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 740, in install_targets
file_copied = self.do_copyfile(fname, outname, makedirs=(dm, outdir))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/ferran/.local/pipx/venvs/meson/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 420, in do_copyfile
self.copy2(from_file, to_file)
File "/home/ferran/.local/pipx/venvs/meson/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 317, in copy2
shutil.copy2(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 436, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 258, in copyfile
with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/help/bg/gnome-calculator/absolute.page'
ERROR: Unhandled python OSError. This is probably not a Meson bug, but an issue with your build environment.
FAILED: meson-internal__install
/home/ferran/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Edited by Andre Klapper