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diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1 index 813ede2..e078115 100644 --- a/man/meson.1 +++ b/man/meson.1 @@ -1,8 +1,40 @@ -.TH MESON "1" "February 2013" "meson 0.1.0" "User Commands" +.TH MESON "1" "June 2013" "meson 0.5.0" "User Commands" .SH NAME -meson - an experimental build system +meson - a high productivity build system .SH DESCRIPTION -usage: meson [options] [source directory] [build directory] + +Meson is a build system designed to optimize programmer +productivity. It aims to do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box +support for modern software development tools and practices, such as +unit tests, coverage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like. + +Using Meson is simple and follows the common two-phase +process of most build systems. First you run Meson to +configure your build: + +.B meson [ +.I options +.B ] [ +.I source directory +.B ] [ +.I build directory +.B ] + +Note that the build directory must be different from the source +directory. Meson does not support building inside the source directory +and attempting to do that leads to an error. + +After a successful configuration step you can build the source by +running the actual build command in the build directory. The default +backend of Meson is Ninja, which can be invoked like this. + +\fBninja [\fR \fItarget\fR \fB]\fR + +You only need to run the Meson command once: when you first configure +your build dir. After that you just run the build command. Meson will +autodetect changes in your source tree and regenerates all files +needed to build the project. + .SS "options:" .TP \fB\-\-version\fR |