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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2017-09-12 21:20:29 +0300
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2017-09-12 21:20:29 +0300
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Clarify that MESONINTROSPECT may have multiple parts.
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@@ -1176,11 +1176,13 @@ the following methods.
Python](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.join)
special-case absolute paths.
- `MESONINTROSPECT` contains the path to the `mesonintrospect`
- executable that corresponds to the `meson` executable that was used
- to configure the build. (This might be a different path then the
- first `mesonintrospect` executable found in `PATH`.) It can be used
- to query build configuration.
+ `MESONINTROSPECT` contains the path to the introspect command that
+ corresponds to the `meson` executable that was used to configure the
+ build. (This might be a different path then the first executable
+ found in `PATH`.) It can be used to query build configuration. Note
+ that the value may contain many parts, i.e. it may be `python3
+ /path/to/meson.py introspect`. The user is responsible for splitting
+ the string to an array if needed.
- `source_root()` returns a string with the absolute path to the
source root directory. Note: you should use the `files()` function