docs: Add warning about not using join_paths() with build targets [skip ci]

This comes up now and again when people try do do something like:

meson.build:
```meson
my_sources = ['foo.c']
subdir('subdir')
executable('foo', my_sources)
```
subdir/meson.build:
```meson
my_sources += ['bar.c']
```
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Dylan Baker 6 years ago committed by Jussi Pakkanen
parent 4ffd009fe9
commit 05fc81ac35
  1. 3
      docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
  2. 8
      docs/markdown/Syntax.md

@ -1022,6 +1022,9 @@ Joins the given strings into a file system path segment. For example
individual segments is an absolute path, all segments before it are
dropped. That means that `join_paths('foo', '/bar')` returns `/bar`.
**Warning** Don't use `join_paths()` for sources in [`library`](#library) and
[`executable`](#executable), you should use [`files`](#files) instead.
*Added 0.36.0*
Since 0.49.0 using the`/` operator on strings is equivalent to calling

@ -216,6 +216,14 @@ path = pathsep.join(['/usr/bin', '/bin', '/usr/local/bin'])
path = join_paths(['/usr', 'local', 'bin'])
# path now has the value '/usr/local/bin'
# Don't use join_paths for sources files, use files for that:
my_sources = files('foo.c')
...
my_sources += files('bar.c')
# This has the advantage of always calculating the correct relative path, even
# if you add files in another directory or use them in a different directory
# than they're defined in
# Example to set an API version for use in library(), install_header(), etc
project('project', 'c', version: '0.2.3')
version_array = meson.project_version().split('.')

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