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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index b4d2333..9bb7911 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1839,7 +1839,10 @@ the following methods. 0.54.0)*](Release-notes-for-0.54.0.md#override-dependency) specifies that whenever `dependency(name, ...)` is used, Meson should not look it up on the system but instead return `dep_object`, which may either be - the result of `dependency()` or `declare_dependency()`. + the result of `dependency()` or `declare_dependency()`. It takes optional + `native` keyword arguments. Doing this in a subproject allows the parent + project to retrieve the dependency without having to know the dependency + variable name: `dependency(name, fallback : subproject_name)`. - `project_version()` returns the version string specified in `project` function call. |