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| author | Emil Melnikov <emilmelnikov@gmail.com> | 2024-06-10 22:56:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> | 2024-06-10 18:12:56 -0400 |
| commit | 141100e482e440dd08ea8b5b042927cac968f112 (patch) | |
| tree | 44bcdee9e90cdb8a3d60992bf102940b7518445c /docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md | |
| parent | 9694f9fefeee6ac7c729c3a520c43902e6fb76f1 (diff) | |
| download | meson-141100e482e440dd08ea8b5b042927cac968f112.tar.gz | |
Add note about meson-python and installation path
New people that want to use Meson for building Python extensions most
probably will read Python module docs first. Direct them to meson-python
and suggest to set `python.install_env=auto`.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md b/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md index b4039d646..6adc4218b 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Builtin-options.md @@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ interpreter directly, even if it is a venv. Setting to `venv` will instead use the paths for the virtualenv the python found installation comes from (or fail if it is not a virtualenv). Setting to `auto` will check if the found installation is a virtualenv, and use `venv` or `system` as appropriate (but -never `prefix`). This option is mutually exclusive with the `platlibdir`/`purelibdir`. +never `prefix`). Note that Conda environments are treated as `system`. +This option is mutually exclusive with the `platlibdir`/`purelibdir`. For backwards compatibility purposes, the default `install_env` is `prefix`. |