<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi everyone -</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I've been successfully building libreoffice for a while now on my Linux Mint setups with very few issues that I've been able to resolve myself.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Today (*May 10 2025) for the first time (Last successful build on this was a week or so ago) I encountered the following partial output when running ./autogen.sh after a git pull -r:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><i>....</i></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><i>checking which TLS/SSL and cryptographic implementation to use... NSS</i></div><div><i>checking which sane header to use... internal</i></div><div><i>checking which icu to use... internal</i></div><div><i>checking whether to enable breakpad... no</i></div><div><i>checking which orcus to use... internal</i></div><div><i>checking which graphite to use... internal</i></div><div><i>checking which harfbuzz to use... internal</i></div><div><i>checking for meson.py... no</i></div><div><i>checking for meson... /usr/bin/meson</i></div><div><i>checking whether meson can be run with "/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/meson"... usage: meson runpython [-h] [-c] script_file ...</i></div><div><i>meson runpython: error: the following arguments are required: script_file, script_args</i></div><div><i>no</i></div><div><i>configure: error: meson incompatible with the specified python. Try using a different python runtime or a plain release of meson by adding PYTHON=/other/python.version and/or MESON=/path/to/meson.py to autogen.input</i></div><div><i>Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 333.</i></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">..after which It failed.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have minimal autogen.input as follows:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><i>--enable-dbgutil</i></div><div><i>--without-doxygen</i></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A few weeks ago I did install meson, which resolved a "missing meson" issue. Now it seems to have issues with the version of python on my system</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Here are the versions installed:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><i>$ sudo apt list meson</i></div><div><i>[sudo] password for </i></div><div><i>Listing... Done</i></div><div><i>meson/jammy,jammy,now 0.61.2-1 all [installed]</i></div><div><i>$ /usr/bin/python</i></div><div><i>Python 3.10.12 (main, Feb 4 2025, 14:57:36) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux</i></div><div><i>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.</i></div><div><i>>>> quit()</i></div><div><br></div></div><br></div><div><br></div>Any ideas what I can do to resolve the issue?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Jeff Melton</div></div></div></body></html>