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| author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2018-09-04 21:52:41 +0530 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2018-09-04 21:52:41 +0530 |
| commit | 9e17dfb5b1b4e1eb56c60e2496988a05676783cc (patch) | |
| tree | 81c7eebe7e95113664704cebfe6a1385c6f275f7 | |
| parent | 172d0a4f107d0280f5ea7fd76d5bc3987f2be948 (diff) | |
| download | meson-nirbheek/fix-another-fallback-vercmp-bug.tar.gz | |
Reference-manual: Clarify fallback dependency types [skip ci]nirbheek/fix-another-fallback-vercmp-bug
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index ea11f6001..1fac42d80 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -361,8 +361,11 @@ otherwise. This function supports the following keyword arguments: dependency is not found in the system. The value is an array `['subproj_name', 'subproj_dep']` where the first value is the name of the subproject and the second is the variable name in that - subproject that contains the value of - [`declare_dependency`](#declare_dependency). + subproject that contains a dependency object such as the return + value of [`declare_dependency`](#declare_dependency) or + [`dependency()`](#dependency), etc. Note that this means the + fallback dependency may be a not-found dependency, in which + case the value of the `required:` kwarg will be obeyed. - `language` *(added 0.42.0)* defines what language-specific dependency to find if it's available for multiple languages. - `method` defines the way the dependency is detected, the default is |