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authorJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-04-08 01:08:51 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-04-08 01:08:51 +0300
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Merge pull request #3312 from MathieuDuponchelle/alwaysfallback
new wrap-mode: forcefallback
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@@ -288,3 +288,9 @@ has a option called `wrap-mode` which can be used to disable wrap
downloads altogether with `--wrap-mode=nodownload`. You can also
disable dependency fallbacks altogether with `--wrap-mode=nofallback`,
which also implies the `nodownload` option.
+
+If on the other hand, you want meson to always use the fallback
+for dependencies, even when an external dependency exists and could
+satisfy the version requirements, for example in order to make
+sure your project builds when fallbacks are used, you can use
+`--wrap-mode=forcefallback` since 0.46.0.