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-rw-r--r--docs/markdown/Installing.md2
-rw-r--r--mesonbuild/backend/backends.py2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Installing.md b/docs/markdown/Installing.md
index 59cd813..26340bc 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Installing.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Installing.md
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ time, please help extending the list of well known categories.
- `bin-devel`:
* Scripts and executables bundled with a library meant to be used by
developers (i.e. build tools).
+- `tests`:
+ * Files installed into `installed-tests` subdir (*Since 0.64.0*).
Custom installation tag can be set using the `install_tag` keyword argument
on various functions such as [[custom_target]], [[configure_file]],
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
index 28cd73e..ba342a1 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
@@ -1540,6 +1540,8 @@ class Backend:
return 'devel'
elif localedir in dest_path.parents:
return 'i18n'
+ elif 'installed-tests' in dest_path.parts:
+ return 'tests'
mlog.debug('Failed to guess install tag for', dest_path)
return None