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authorMichael Mera <dev@michaelmera.com>2018-05-27 17:14:56 +0200
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-05-27 23:49:16 +0300
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Make install doc less surprising for new users [skip ci]
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ninja install
+Note that Meson will only install build targets explicitly tagged as
+installable, as detailed in the [installing targets documentation](Installing.md).
+
By default Meson installs to `/usr/local`. This can be changed by
passing the command line argument `--prefix /your/prefix` to Meson
during configure time. Meson also supports the `DESTDIR` variable used