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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 5156b5b..963af9d 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1846,7 +1846,9 @@ the following methods. specifies that whenever `find_program` is used to find a program named `progname`, Meson should not look it up on the system but instead return `program`, which may either be the result of - `find_program`, `configure_file` or `executable`. + `find_program`, `configure_file` or `executable`. *Since 0.55.0* if a version + check is passed to `find_program` for a program that has been overridden with + an executable, the current project version is used. If `program` is an `executable`, it cannot be used during configure. @@ -2460,6 +2462,12 @@ and has the following methods: - `path()` which returns a string pointing to the script or executable **NOTE:** You should not need to use this method. Passing the object itself should work in all cases. For example: `run_command(obj, arg1, arg2)` + *Since 0.55.0* this method has been deprecated in favor of `full_path()` for + consistency with other returned objects. + +- `full_path()` *Since 0.55.0* which returns a string pointing to the script or + executable **NOTE:** You should not need to use this method. Passing the object + itself should work in all cases. For example: `run_command(obj, arg1, arg2)`. ### `environment` object diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0bb64d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +## find_program: Fixes when the program has been overridden by executable + +When a program has been overridden by an executable, the returned object of +find_program() had some issues: + +```meson +# In a subproject: +exe = executable('foo', ...) +meson.override_find_program('foo', exe) + +# In main project: +# The version check was crashing meson. +prog = find_program('foo', version : '>=1.0') + +# This was crashing meson. +message(prog.path()) + +# New method to be consistent with built objects. +message(prog.full_path()) +``` |