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clarify how whichever target is found first will take priority.
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src/doc/rustc/src/targets/custom.md

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1. if `TARGET` is the name of a built-in target, use that
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2. if `TARGET` is a path to a file, read that file as a json target
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3. otherwise, search the colon-seperated list of directories found
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in the `RUST_TARGET_PATH` environment variable for a file named
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`TARGET.json`.
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in the `RUST_TARGET_PATH` environment variable from left to right
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for a file named `TARGET.json`.
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These steps are tried in order, so if there are multple potentially valid
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interpretations for a target, whichever is found first will take priority.
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If none of these methods find a target, an error is thrown.

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