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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2016-09-28 16:40:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2016-09-28 16:57:59 +0200 |
| commit | 714570912d678c10f4aa4b6a6692d958e0fc7fe7 (patch) | |
| tree | de2d7c9bb558355224e58714d8ce82c49447c411 /erts/doc/src/erl.xml | |
| parent | dabc6644991a6e732dc4404433215d1333a0ea07 (diff) | |
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Document the order of directories added with code:add_pathsa/1
code:add_pathsa/1 reverts the list of directories when adding it at
the beginning of the code path. The command line option '-pa' behaves
in the same way. This is now documented.
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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index f62d3fb170..eb1d24cf12 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -393,9 +393,11 @@ <tag><c><![CDATA[-pa Dir1 Dir2 ...]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Adds the specified directories to the beginning of the code - path, similar to <c><![CDATA[code:add_pathsa/1]]></c>; see - <seealso marker="kernel:code"><c>code(3)</c></seealso>. - As an alternative to <c>-pa</c>, if several directories are + path, similar to <seealso marker="kernel:code#add_pathsa/1"> + <c><![CDATA[code:add_pathsa/1]]></c></seealso>. Note that the + order of the given directories will be reversed in the + resulting path.</p> + <p>As an alternative to <c>-pa</c>, if several directories are to be prepended to the code path and the directories have a common parent directory, that parent directory can be specified in environment variable <c>ERL_LIBS</c>; see |