When meson runs a dist script it set both MESON_BUILD_ROOT and MESON_DIST_ROOT envvars [1]. But for some reason, we took the former as an argument and obtained the latter via env. Well, obtain both via env. 1: https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_builtin_meson.html#mesonadd_dist_... Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Another option is to pass both directories as arguments. But this inconsistent solution bothers me. Especially since I want to copy the script somewhere else (stay tuned to learn more). meson.build | 4 ++-- scripts/meson-dist.py | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 1518afa1cb..5aa50e0d64 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -2195,8 +2195,8 @@ if git foreach file : dist_files meson.add_dist_script( - meson_python_prog.full_path(), python3_prog.full_path(), meson_dist_prog.full_path(), - meson.project_build_root(), file + meson_python_prog.full_path(), python3_prog.full_path(), + meson_dist_prog.full_path(), file ) endforeach endif diff --git a/scripts/meson-dist.py b/scripts/meson-dist.py index bb751b97d3..39dd4fbab0 100755 --- a/scripts/meson-dist.py +++ b/scripts/meson-dist.py @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import os import shutil import sys -meson_build_root = sys.argv[1] -file_name = sys.argv[2] +file_name = sys.argv[1] +meson_build_root = os.environ['MESON_BUILD_ROOT'] meson_dist_root = os.environ['MESON_DIST_ROOT'] shutil.copy(os.path.join(meson_build_root, file_name), -- 2.43.2