Ninja could not be found after installing

[pwnorbitals]

Here is the full error log :

Run BSFishy/meson-build@v1.0.1
with:
action: build
directory: build
meson-version: 0.53.2
ninja-version: 1.9.0.post1
gcovr-version: 4.2
Installing Ninja version 1.9.0.post1
/usr/bin/python -m pip install ninja==1.9.0.post1
Collecting ninja==1.9.0.post1
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/6f/11/536b532fe7613de0376862ef20b8b2850033ed5675a8237bfb1a53ef6131/ninja-1.9.0.post1-py2-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (98kB)
Installing collected packages: ninja
Successfully installed ninja-1.9.0.post1
##[error]Ninja could not be found after installing

This is a simple default gh actions that runs on ubuntu-latest

[BrknRobot]

Seems like running setup-python first fixes this.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-python

[pwnorbitals]

Can this be automated in the action witout too much effort ? I’m wondering what the root cause may be, though

[BrknRobot]

Most likely the directory pip is installing to isn't in $PATH, and setup-python is adding it. Probably, this action should just depend on setup-python rather than doing it's own python setup.

[BSFishy]

Apologies I took this long to see this. Yes, make sure you use the setup-python action. It sets up Python correctly and is what this action was tested with. I looked into integrating the setup-python action with this one, and unfortunately it doesn't seem plausible. The way that actions are invoked doesn't give them an easy way to communicate, and the way that setup-python works is non-standard. I would recommend just using that action before this one, as that is most likely to work.

Hope this helped!