meson-internal__install error on orange pi 5

Hey guys! sorry to bother you but I was building mesa on orange pi 5 and
ran into this.  wasn't sure where to go from here but it seemed to be a
problem with the repo itself.  Hopefully it's not!


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[2172/2173] Installing files.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 146,
in run
    return options.run_func(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 811,
in run
    installer.do_install(datafilename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 564,
in do_install
    d = self.check_installdata(pickle.load(ifile))
AttributeError: Can't get attribute 'OptionString' on <module
'mesonbuild.interpreter.primitives.string' from
'/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mesonbuild/interpreter/primitives/string.py'>

ERROR: Unhandled python exception

    This is a Meson bug and should be reported!
FAILED: meson-internal__install
/home/navak/.local/bin/meson install --no-rebuild
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.