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| author | Xavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com> | 2019-11-25 14:29:05 -0500 |
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| committer | Xavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com> | 2020-03-06 15:26:02 -0500 |
| commit | 943e9368f7198b6c2b069ad024ee798037f3c35e (patch) | |
| tree | afaae1242cb0d6a17cdd6e16cffd92611a2e80b4 /docs/markdown/snippets | |
| parent | 2fdedc4d0fc73c509669bf9f89863017e0f0989b (diff) | |
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Simplify dependency() fallback
Now that subprojects can override the dependency name, there is no need
to provide a variable name for the fallback any more.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/override_dependency.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/override_dependency.md index 875eef8..ca420bc 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/snippets/override_dependency.md +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/override_dependency.md @@ -57,3 +57,9 @@ If the subproject does `dependency('foo')` but the main project wants to provide its own implementation of `foo`, it can for example call `meson.override_dependency('foo', declare_dependency(...))` before configuring the subproject. + +## Simplified `dependency()` fallback + +In the case a subproject `foo` calls `meson.override_dependency('foo-2.0', foo_dep)`, +the parent project can omit the dependency variable name in fallback keyword +argument: `dependency('foo-2.0', fallback : 'foo')`. |