</pre>
</dd>
+<dd><p>
+Meson < 0.49 doesn't support native files, so to specify a custom
+<code>llvm-config</code> you need to modify your <code>$PATH</code> (or
+<code>%PATH%</code> on windows), which will be searched for
+<code>llvm-config</code>, <code>llvm-config<i>$version</i></code>,
+and <code>llvm-config-<i>$version</i></code>:
+</p>
+<pre>
+PATH=/path/to/folder/with/llvm-config:$PATH meson build
+</pre>
+</dd>
+
<dd><p>
For selecting llvm-config for cross compiling a
<a href="https://mesonbuild.com/Cross-compilation.html#defining-the-environment">"cross file"</a>
See the <a href="#cross-compilation">Cross Compilation</a> section for more information.
</dd>
-<dd><p>
-For older versions of meson <code>$PATH</code> (or <code>%PATH%</code> on
-windows) will be searched for llvm-config (and llvm-config$version and
-llvm-config-$version), you can override this environment variable to control
-the search: <code>PATH=/path/with/llvm-config:$PATH meson build</code>.
-</p></dd>
-
<dt><code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code></dt>
<dd><p>The
<code>pkg-config</code> utility is a hard requirement for configuring and