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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md | 9 |
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index dd0b3f4..9762955 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -701,6 +701,9 @@ Keyword arguments are the following: If the output is more complicated than that, the version checking will have to be done manually using [`run_command()`](#run_command). +- `dirs` *(since 0.53.0)* Extra list of absolute paths where to look for program + names. + Meson will also autodetect scripts with a shebang line and run them with the executable/interpreter specified in it both on Windows (because the command invocator will reject the command otherwise) and diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bef824 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/find_program.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +## Search directories for `find_program()` + +It is now possible to give a list of absolute paths where `find_program()` should +also search, using the `dirs` keyword argument. + +For example on Linux `/sbin` and `/usr/sbin` are not always in the `$PATH`: +```meson +prog = find_program('mytool', dirs : ['/usr/sbin', '/sbin']) +``` |