name: install_emptydir
returns: void
since: 0.60.0
description: |
  Installs a new directory entry to the location specified by the positional
  argument. If the directory exists and is not empty, the contents are left in
  place.

warnings:
  - the `install_mode` kwarg ignored integer values before 1.1.0.

varargs:
  name: dirpath
  type: str
  description: Directory to create during installation.

kwargs:
  install_mode:
    type: array[str | int]
    description: |
      Specify the file mode in symbolic format and optionally the owner/uid and
      group/gid for the created directory.

      See the `install_mode` kwarg of [[install_data]] for more information.
  install_tag:
    type: str
    description: |
      A string used by the `meson install --tags` command to install only a
      subset of the files. By default this directory has no install tag which
      means it is not installed when the `--tags` argument is specified.