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

[Vedant Paranjape]

Ok, I will do that.

On Mon, 22 Mar, 2021, 14:03 Jacopo Mondi, <jacopo at jmondi.org> wrote:

> Hello
>
> One nit: please keep the subject line (as close as possible) to the 75
> columns limit. I know sometimes it's hard, but in your case a simpler
>
> libcamera: Add alternative meson install command
>
> would be enough.
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 01:48:41PM +0530, Vedant Paranjape wrote:
> > Sure, will do that. Should I add the error message in commit message or
> the
> > readme?
>
> I feel this is documenting an issue not related to libcamera but to
> the user setup. If installing --user fails, one should go and look why
> in general pip3 fails to install in the user directory, that's not
> specific to libcamera. Or have I missed something trivial ?
>
> Thanks
>   j
>
> >
> > 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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