name: get_option returns: str | int | bool | feature | list[str | int | bool] description: | Obtains the value of the [project build option](Build-options.md) specified in the positional argument. Note that the value returned for built-in options that end in `dir` such as `bindir` and `libdir` is always a path relative to (and inside) the `prefix`. The only exceptions are: `sysconfdir`, `localstatedir`, and `sharedstatedir` which will return the value passed during configuration as-is, which may be absolute, or relative to `prefix`. [`install_dir` arguments](Installing.md) handles that as expected, but if you need the absolute path to one of these e.g. to use in a define etc., you should use `get_option('prefix') / get_option('localstatedir')` For options of type `feature` a [[@feature]] option object is returned instead of a string. See [`feature` options](Build-options.md#features) documentation for more details. posargs: option_name: type: str description: Name of the option to query