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| author | Iñigo MartÃnez <inigomartinez@gmail.com> | 2017-12-10 14:59:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2017-12-12 18:33:04 +0000 |
| commit | 514d21e6a464a93dee2f2266623271007b87d99d (patch) | |
| tree | da72a370760013bc409c95ebc09ee783080221cc /docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | |
| parent | 04d5d017c508376d789fe22b0453617c7e69a3b0 (diff) | |
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docs: Add documentation to dependency variables
Meson is able to redefine variables when retrieving them from
`pkg-config` dependencies. However, the documentation is missing.
This patch adds documentation for this feature.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index dcedccd..f797da1 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1618,7 +1618,9 @@ an external dependency with the following methods: - `get_pkgconfig_variable(varname)` (*Added 0.36.0*) will get the pkg-config variable specified, or, if invoked on a non pkg-config - dependency, error out + dependency, error out. (*Added 0.44.0*) You can also redefine a + variable by passing a list to the `define_variable` parameter + that can affect the retrieved variable: `['prefix', '/'])`. - `get_configtool_variable(varname)` (*Added 0.44.0*) will get the command line argument from the config tool (with `--` prepended), or, |