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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')`. |