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authorSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2016-09-28 16:40:19 +0200
committerSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2016-09-28 16:57:59 +0200
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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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@@ -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