Meson rewrite usage

[lizalc]

I'm new to using the rewrite command so maybe I'm missing something or maybe this is a bug.

I'm trying to add source files to a target that is defined in a meson.build in a subdir of the repo. When I run meson rewrite the source file gets added but with an incorrect additional ../ added to the beginning of the file path. For example, if I'm adding a source file (src/example.c) to a target in src/meson.build then meson rewrite will add ../example.c to the target source files instead of example.c. But ../example.c does not exist and so Meson will complain about that file not existing.

I have a repo here with a basic Meson project to replicate this: lizalc/meson-rewrite-test. There is a meson.build in the repo root which includes a meson.build in the src dir where the executable target is defined. If I add a source file (src/empty.c in my repo) and run meson rewrite to add it to the executable target it add ../empty.c instead of empty.c.

Initial repo state without running meson rewrite: lizalc/meson-rewrite-test@95b4c41

Repo state after running meson rewrite: lizalc/meson-rewrite-test@2afa54a

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Am I missing something or is this a bug?

[lizalc]

Forgot to add some details about my environment:

• Meson 1.9.1
  • Also tried with latest git available at time of writing, same behavior
• macOS Tahoe
• Python 3.14.0