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authorJon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2018-06-14 17:51:13 +0100
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-06-17 15:26:11 +0300
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Improve documentation of case-(in)senstivity of dependency names [skip ci]
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@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ of all the work behind the scenes to make this work.
Some dependencies have specific detection logic.
+Generic dependency names are case-sensitive<sup>[1](#footnote1)</sup>, but these
+dependency names are matched case-insensitively. The recommended style is to
+write them in all lower-case.
+
In some cases, more than one detection method exists, and the `method` keyword
may be used to select a detection method to use. The `auto` method uses any
checking mechanisms in whatever order meson thinks is best.
@@ -377,3 +381,7 @@ $ wx-config --cxxflags std stc
# link_args:
$ wx-config --libs std stc
```
+
+<hr>
+<a name="footnote1">1</a>: They may appear to be case-insensitive, if the
+ underlying file system happens to be case-insensitive.