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authorDaniel Kirchner <daniel@ekpyron.org>2018-08-10 02:46:22 +0800
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@@ -23,14 +23,15 @@ it is also possible to provide path redirects using ``prefix=path`` in the follo
::
- solc github.com/ethereum/dapp-bin/=/usr/local/lib/dapp-bin/ =/usr/local/lib/fallback file.sol
+ solc github.com/ethereum/dapp-bin/=/usr/local/lib/dapp-bin/ file.sol
This essentially instructs the compiler to search for anything starting with
-``github.com/ethereum/dapp-bin/`` under ``/usr/local/lib/dapp-bin`` and if it does not
-find the file there, it will look at ``/usr/local/lib/fallback`` (the empty prefix
-always matches). ``solc`` will not read files from the filesystem that lie outside of
+``github.com/ethereum/dapp-bin/`` under ``/usr/local/lib/dapp-bin``.
+``solc`` will not read files from the filesystem that lie outside of
the remapping targets and outside of the directories where explicitly specified source
-files reside, so things like ``import "/etc/passwd";`` only work if you add ``=/`` as a remapping.
+files reside, so things like ``import "/etc/passwd";`` only work if you add ``/=/`` as a remapping.
+
+An empty remapping prefix is not allowed.
If there are multiple matches due to remappings, the one with the longest common prefix is selected.