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authorPaolo Borelli <pborelli@gnome.org>2019-11-19 20:07:02 +0100
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2019-11-19 21:07:02 +0200
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docs: clarify how Meson handles shebang in run_command [skip ci]
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@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ which is unwanted in string variables. The first argument can be
either a string or an executable you have detected earlier with
`find_program`.
+Meson will autodetect scripts with a shebang line and run them with
+the executable/interpreter specified in it both on Windows and on Unixes.
+
Note that you can not pass your command line as a single string. That
is, calling `run_command('do_something foo bar')` will not work. You
must either split up the string into separate arguments or pass the