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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md b/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md index 613b8b8..db3c3e8 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md @@ -23,13 +23,15 @@ For legacy reasons `--warnlevel` is the cli argument for the They can also be edited after setup using `meson configure -Doption=value`. -Installation options are all relative to the prefix, except: +Installation options are usually relative to the prefix but it should +not be relied on, since they can be absolute paths in the following cases: * When the prefix is `/usr`: `sysconfdir` defaults to `/etc`, `localstatedir` defaults to `/var`, and `sharedstatedir` defaults to `/var/lib` * When the prefix is `/usr/local`: `localstatedir` defaults to `/var/local`, and `sharedstatedir` defaults to `/var/local/lib` +* When an absolute path outside of prefix is provided by the user/distributor. ### Directories |