aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2022-02-24 10:11:00 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2022-02-24 10:11:00 +0200
commitbe66fff5ff42eaab81d2a526d8b6296c28848775 (patch)
tree731f296482b0c8a248d12895b00b19d839f0d66a /doc
parentc397402cba2f8bccaa9b8e63f7ae95f3540f54cd (diff)
Add note on disabling subprojects/amalgamations import search
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual.cli10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli
index 2f532e4..c9e77f6 100644
--- a/doc/manual.cli
+++ b/doc/manual.cli
@@ -2563,6 +2563,16 @@ Subprojects and Amalgamations} for details on this subject).
subproject in \c{libhello}. The test imports \c{libhello} which is
automatically found as an amalgamation containing this subproject.|
+\N|To skip searching in subprojects/amalgamations and proceed directly to the
+rule-specific search (described below), specify the \c{config.import.*}
+variable with an empty value. For example:
+
+\
+$ b configure: ... config.import.libhello=
+\
+
+|
+
If the project being imported cannot be located using any of these methods,
then \c{import} falls back to the rule-specific search. That is, a rule that
matches the target may provide support for importing certain target types