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authorColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2010-09-02 11:47:08 -0400
committerColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2010-09-02 14:19:33 -0400
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downloadgobject-introspection-8591b8ad20b9dc8636ef6350693520099974f267.tar.gz
scanner: Add --include-uninstalled
We need a way to add a .gir file, without also attempting to load the pkg-config file for it (since it may not be installed yet). Example: clutter builds multiple .gir files, Cally-1.0 depends on Clutter-1.0.
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@@ -32,10 +32,14 @@ This parameters decides which the resulting format will be used.
The default value is gir.
.TP
.B \--include=NAME
-Parses another metadata file. The format is determined by looking
-at the file suffix. If a library depends on another the corresponding
-metadata file should be included so references to external types are
-correctly specified.
+Add the specified introspection dependency to the scanned namespace.
+NAME is of the form NAMESPACE-VERSION, like Gtk-3.0.
+.TP
+.B \--include-uninstalled=PATH
+Add the specified introspection dependency to the scanned namespace.
+This differs from \--include in that it takes a file path, and
+does not process the pkg-config dependencies (since they may not
+be installed yet).
.TP
.B \--add-include-path=PATH
Add a directory to the path which the scanner uses to find GIR files.