diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index a723b0349..5cd24b719 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -420,7 +420,9 @@ If dependency_name is `''`, the dependency is always not found. So with `found()` method returns `false`, and which can be passed like any other dependency to the `dependencies:` keyword argument of a `build_target`. This can be used to implement a dependency which is sometimes not required e.g. in -some branches of a conditional. +some branches of a conditional, or with a `fallback:` kwarg, can be used to +declare an optional dependency that only looks in the specified subproject, +and only if that's allowed by `--wrap-mode`. The returned object also has methods that are documented in the [object methods section](#dependency-object) below.