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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/build_subdir.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/build_subdir.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0c115d05d..000000000 --- a/docs/markdown/snippets/build_subdir.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -## Added `build_subdir` arg to various targets - -`custom_target()`, `build_target()` and `configure_file()` now support -the `build_subdir` argument. This directs meson to place the build -result within the specified sub-directory path of the build directory. - -```meson -configure_file(input : files('config.h.in'), - output : 'config.h', - build_subdir : 'config-subdir', - install_dir : 'share/appdir', - configuration : conf) -``` - -This places the build result, `config.h`, in a sub-directory named -`config-subdir`, creating it if necessary. To prevent collisions -within the build directory, `build_subdir` is not allowed to match a -file or directory in the source directory nor contain '..' to refer to -the parent of the build directory. `build_subdir` does not affect the -install directory path at all; `config.h` will be installed as -`share/appdir/config.h`. `build_subdir` may contain multiple levels of -directory names. - -This allows construction of files within the build system that have -any required trailing path name components as well as building -multiple files with the same basename from the same source directory. |