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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 09d54be..b4d2333 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -445,6 +445,10 @@ arguments: [`dependency()`](#dependency), etc. Note that this means the fallback dependency may be a not-found dependency, in which case the value of the `required:` kwarg will be obeyed. + *Since 0.54.0* `'subproj_dep'` argument can be omitted in the case the + subproject used `meson.override_dependency('dependency_name', subproj_dep)`. + In that case, the `fallback` keyword argument can be a single string instead + of a list of 2 strings. - `language` *(added 0.42.0)* defines what language-specific dependency to find if it's available for multiple languages. - `method` defines the way the dependency is detected, the default is 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')`. |