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| author | Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev> | 2020-10-01 19:24:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Xavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com> | 2020-10-01 13:42:56 -0400 |
| commit | 1d04caff29f675329ecb6491b50578474d71b6f4 (patch) | |
| tree | b362fb5de25956007bfc94164f7a7db72308b202 | |
| parent | a65fffd127ec7597ae4b8a745ded33c5b153e59b (diff) | |
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Document search order of find_program
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 3279ddf..563cfe4 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -699,7 +699,10 @@ The returned object also has methods that are documented in the `program_name1` here is a string that can be an executable or script to be searched for in `PATH`, or a script in the current source -directory. +directory. The search order is: program overrides (set via meson.override_find_program()); +subprojects (if wrap_mode is set to `forcefallback`); your project's source tree; +$PATH; the python3 libdir if your command starts with `python3` and finally +subprojects again, if wrap_mode is set to anything but `nofallback`. *(since 0.37.0)* `program_name2` and later positional arguments are used as fallback strings to search for. This is meant to be used for cases where the |