Add feed arg to custom_target()

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
index 388c975..16fcbbf 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
@@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ following.
   `{'NAME1': 'value1', 'NAME2': 'value2'}` or `['NAME1=value1', 'NAME2=value2']`,
   or an [`environment()` object](#environment-object) which allows more
   sophisticated environment juggling.
+- `feed` *(since 0.59.0)*: there are some compilers that can't be told to read
+  their input from a file and instead read it from standard input. When this
+  argument is set to true, Meson feeds the input file to `stdin`. Note that
+  your argument list may not contain `@INPUT@` when feed mode is active.
 
 The list of strings passed to the `command` keyword argument accept
 the following special string substitutions:
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/custom-target-feed.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/custom-target-feed.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f965152
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/custom-target-feed.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+## The custom_target() function now accepts a feed argument
+
+It is now possible to provide a `feed: true` argument to `custom_target()` to
+pipe the target's input file to the program's standard input.