In #4208 I removed the "autobuild" step and replaced it with "build-mode: autobuild" as mentioned in the docs but it failed with a different error ("could not compile"). So I reverted the changes again.

I also checked the version of the CodeQL action but the last successful build was using the same version as the failing builds.

Finally it got green after I replace "autobuild" with "manual" and added steps for running a simple Meson build.

While this is nice, I still have no clue why it doesn't work anymore with "autobuild" :(.

_Originally posted by @eht16 in [#4206](https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/4206#issuecomment-2600876577)_