diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst
index a06cc66a05..7125b8b312 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/input.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst
@@ -3329,8 +3329,9 @@ Property list
     might contain either a release version, or just a git hash.
 
 ``mpv-configuration``
-    The configuration arguments which were passed to the build system
-    (typically the way ``./waf configure ...`` was invoked).
+    The configuration arguments that were passed to the build system. If the
+    meson version used to compile mpv is older than 1.1.0, then a hardcoded
+    string of a few, arbitrary options is displayed instead.
 
 ``ffmpeg-version``
     The contents of the ``av_version_info()`` API call. This is a string which
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 49c5f254e5..4aada48731 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1613,12 +1613,15 @@ if features['pdf-build']
 endif
 
 
-# Currently, we can't easily get every single thing a user might have passed
-# on the cli, but we might as well just hardcode a few options (even if they are
-# not specifically set) for verbosity's sake.
-configuration = 'meson configure build ' + '-Dprefix=' + get_option('prefix') + \
-                ' -Dbuildtype=' + get_option('buildtype') + \
-                ' -Doptimization=' + get_option('optimization')
+if meson.version().version_compare('>= 1.1.0')
+    configuration = meson.build_options()
+else
+    # Arbitrary hardcoded things to pass if the meson version is too
+    # old to have the build_options method.
+    configuration = 'meson configure build ' + '-Dprefix=' + get_option('prefix') + \
+                    ' -Dbuildtype=' + get_option('buildtype') + \
+                    ' -Doptimization=' + get_option('optimization')
+endif
 
 
 # Set config.h