meson: GTK+ reqested bug report

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  shutil.unpack_archive(path, extract_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/shutil.py", line 1267, in unpack_archive
    raise ReadError("Unknown archive format '{0}'".format(filename))
shutil.ReadError: Unknown archive format '/home/rb/gtk-main/subprojects/packagecache/pcre-8.37.tar.bz2'

subprojects/glib/meson.build:2048:2: ERROR: Unhandled python exception

    This is a Meson bug and should be reported!

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system parameters

  • Is this a cross build or just a plain native build (for the same computer)?
  • what operating system (e.g. MacOS Catalina, Windows 10, CentOS 8.0, Ubuntu 18.04, etc.)
  • what Python version are you using e.g. 3.8.0
  • what meson --version
  • what ninja --version if it’s a Ninja build

About this issue

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  • State: open
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments: 17 (9 by maintainers)

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yes glib-man for gtk+ install i installed the tar.gz file the meson scipt downloaded the bz2 file] I also installed pcre-8.37 make install meson did not find it so do not know what to say