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diff --git a/doc/tutorial/third-party-software.md b/doc/tutorial/third-party-software.md index 644b7b21..c8653d3e 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial/third-party-software.md +++ b/doc/tutorial/third-party-software.md @@ -3,11 +3,16 @@ Building Third-party Software Third-party projects usually ship with their own build description, which often happens to be not compatible with justbuild. Nevertheless, -it is highly desireable to include external projects via their source +it often is desireable to include external projects via their source code base, instead of relying on the integration of out-of-band binary distributions. justbuild offers a flexible approach to provide the required build description via an overlay layer without the need to -touch the original code base. +touch the original code base. This mechanism is independent of the +actual justbuild description eventually used and the latter might +well be a +[rule calling the foreign buildsystem](https://github.com/just-buildsystem/rules-cc#rule-ccforeigncmake-library). +In this section, however, we describe the cleaner approach of providing +a native build description. For the remainder of this section, we expect to have the project files available resulting from successfully completing the tutorial section on |