From 0204895143d4aacf143be952f962dc47e415c187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 21:30:44 +0200
Subject: Expose integer options to build option files.

---
 docs/markdown/Build-options.md   | 7 +++++++
 docs/markdown/snippets/intopt.md | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/markdown/snippets/intopt.md

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Build-options.md b/docs/markdown/Build-options.md
index cd7f07d1b..85e827424 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Build-options.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Build-options.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Here is a simple option file.
 option('someoption', type : 'string', value : 'optval', description : 'An option')
 option('other_one', type : 'boolean', value : false)
 option('combo_opt', type : 'combo', choices : ['one', 'two', 'three'], value : 'three')
+option('integer_opt', type : 'integer', min : 0, max : 5, value : 3)
 option('free_array_opt', type : 'array', value : ['one', 'two'])
 option('array_opt', type : 'array', choices : ['one', 'two', 'three'], value : ['one', 'two'])
 ```
@@ -39,6 +40,12 @@ A combo allows any one of the values in the `choices` parameter to be
 selected.  If no default value is set then the first value will be the
 default.
 
+## Integers
+
+An integer option contains a single integer with optional upper and
+lower values that are specified with the `min` and `max` keyword
+arguments. Available since Meson version 0.45.0.
+
 ### Arrays
 
 Arrays represent an array of strings. By default the array can contain
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/intopt.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/intopt.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..daf660b0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/intopt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+## Integer options
+
+There is a new integer option type with optional minimum and maximum
+values. It can be specified like this in the `meson_options.txt` file:
+
+    option('integer_option', type : 'integer', min : 0, max : 5, value : 3)
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