mesonbuild/meson

Add subdir argument to gnome.mkenums_simple() to match install_headers()

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#2,969 opened on Jan 24, 2018

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Description

Currently, to install my public headers and generated enums.h, I have to do something like:

includedir = join_paths(prefix, get_option('includedir'))
libblah_include_subdir = join_paths(libblah_api_name, 'libblah')
libblah_enums = gnome.mkenums_simple('enums',
  sources: libblah_headers,
  install_header: true,
  install_dir: join_paths(includedir, libblah_include_subdir),
)

# Public library bits.
install_headers(libblah_headers,
  subdir: libblah_include_subdir,
)

It would be good if gnome.mkenums_simple() took a subdir argument like install_headers, so that dealing with includedir directly was not necessary.

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feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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PythonMeson build system
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80
Research direction
The issue requests adding a 'subdir' argument to the gnome.mkenums simple() function in the Meson build system. Since the issue was created in 2018 and has no responses or PRs, a contributor should first check the current state of the gnome module in the Meson repository (likely in mesonbuild/gnome.py or similar). The implementation should mirror how install headers() handles the subdir argument. No existing PRs or linked work were found, so this is a fresh opportunity to implement the feature.