[libcamera-devel] [PATCH] Added alternative to meson install command, if it fails with --user argument

Vedant Paranjape vedantparanjape160201 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 09:18:41 CET 2021


Sure, will do that. Should I add the error message in commit message or the
readme?

On Mon, 22 Mar, 2021, 13:41 Sebastian Fricke, <sebastian.fricke at posteo.net>
wrote:

> Hey Vedant,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> I believe this patch would benefit from a description, that makes clear
> why this change is needed. The current version feels like you've hit a
> quite specific problem and you provide a quite generic solution to it.
>
> On 22.03.2021 13:10, Vedant Paranjape wrote:
> >Signed-off-by: Vedant Paranjape <vedantparanjape160201 at gmail.com>
> >---
> > README.rst | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
> >index 1427c714..0bfd39d9 100644
> >--- a/README.rst
> >+++ b/README.rst
> >@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ Meson Build system: [required]
> >
> >             pip3 install --user meson
> >             pip3 install --user --upgrade meson
> >-
> >+
> >+        If this fails, retry with `pip3 install meson`
> >+
>
> This feels a little too broad as there are multiple reasons for this
> command to fail. Can you show the error message that you encountered?
>
> > for the libcamera core: [required]
> >         python3-yaml python3-ply python3-jinja2
> >
> >--
> >2.25.1
>
> Greetings,
> Sebastian
>
> >
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