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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 14c931d..e30b79c 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -606,6 +606,11 @@ installed, and so on, use a [`custom_target`](#custom_target) instead. Obtains the value of the [project build option](Build-options.md) specified in the positional argument. +Note that the value returned for built-in options that end in `dir` such as +`bindir` and `libdir` is always a path relative to (and inside) the `prefix`. +The only exceptions are: `sysconfdir`, `localstatedir`, and `sharedstatedir` +which will return the value passed during configuration as-is. + ### get_variable() ``` meson |