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Diffstat (limited to 'build2/search.hxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | build2/search.hxx | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/build2/search.hxx b/build2/search.hxx index 043a216..79c7853 100644 --- a/build2/search.hxx +++ b/build2/search.hxx @@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ namespace build2 const target* search_existing_target (const prerequisite_key&); - // Search for an existing file in the scope's src directory. Prerequisite - // directory should be relative. + // Search for an existing file. If the prerequisite directory is relative, + // then look in the scope's src directory. Otherwise, if the absolute + // directory is inside the project's root scope, look there. In case of + // the absolute directory, if the scope is NULL, assume the file is not + // in src. // // Originally the plan was to have a target-type specific variable that // contains the search paths. But there wasn't any need for this yet. |