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authorDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2018-12-18 13:42:44 -0800
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-12-19 01:25:17 +0200
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docs: Add warning about not using join_paths() with build targets [skip ci]
This comes up now and again when people try do do something like: meson.build: ```meson my_sources = ['foo.c'] subdir('subdir') executable('foo', my_sources) ``` subdir/meson.build: ```meson my_sources += ['bar.c'] ```
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@@ -216,6 +216,14 @@ path = pathsep.join(['/usr/bin', '/bin', '/usr/local/bin'])
path = join_paths(['/usr', 'local', 'bin'])
# path now has the value '/usr/local/bin'
+# Don't use join_paths for sources files, use files for that:
+my_sources = files('foo.c')
+...
+my_sources += files('bar.c')
+# This has the advantage of always calculating the correct relative path, even
+# if you add files in another directory or use them in a different directory
+# than they're defined in
+
# Example to set an API version for use in library(), install_header(), etc
project('project', 'c', version: '0.2.3')
version_array = meson.project_version().split('.')