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| author | LaserEyess <LaserEyess@users.noreply.github.com> | 2025-01-21 18:11:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> | 2025-01-21 18:36:02 -0500 |
| commit | 0b9baf573bf2b1619d7822f67965a35391172625 (patch) | |
| tree | 769ae7c83343b7c2ddedd386a7f555dc611e2b1f /docs/yaml | |
| parent | cef9c33bba566b576d3d5b04d88bb3ebadb7d1e8 (diff) | |
| download | meson-0b9baf573bf2b1619d7822f67965a35391172625.tar.gz | |
docs: clarify use cases for declare_dependency()
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/yaml/functions/declare_dependency.yaml | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/yaml/functions/declare_dependency.yaml b/docs/yaml/functions/declare_dependency.yaml index 9d085fdf8..848082d1b 100644 --- a/docs/yaml/functions/declare_dependency.yaml +++ b/docs/yaml/functions/declare_dependency.yaml @@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ returns: dep description: | This function returns a [[@dep]] object that behaves like the return value of [[dependency]] but is - internal to the current build. The main use case for this is in + internal to the current build. One use case for this is in subprojects. This allows a subproject to easily specify how it should be used. This makes it interchangeable with the same dependency that - is provided externally by the system. + is provided externally by the system. Another common use case is to + declare project targets as dependencies so they may be used as + dependencies of other build targets. kwargs: compile_args: @@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ kwargs: description: | extra files to add to targets. mostly used for IDE integration. - + version: type: str description: | |