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| author | HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> | 2023-04-09 20:00:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2023-04-11 17:10:01 +0300 |
| commit | 439a61affab391d44341ac3113592698abd4143b (patch) | |
| tree | 6fd31f98446f2aaf7d4f7062f102abbf23f021fb /docs/markdown/FAQ.md | |
| parent | a912193fd8ed5e673009e879c088aa70b297811a (diff) | |
| download | meson-439a61affab391d44341ac3113592698abd4143b.tar.gz | |
Change "can not" to "cannot" throughout project
The word "cannot" expresses inability to do something whereas "can not"
expresses the ability to refrain from doing something.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/markdown/FAQ.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/FAQ.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/FAQ.md b/docs/markdown/FAQ.md index d3e3d0a10..8bcea2044 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/FAQ.md +++ b/docs/markdown/FAQ.md @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ executable('myprog', sources : '*.cpp') # This does NOT work! ``` Meson does not support this syntax and the reason for this is simple. -This can not be made both reliable and fast. By reliable we mean that +This cannot be made both reliable and fast. By reliable we mean that if the user adds a new source file to the subdirectory, Meson should detect that and make it part of the build automatically. @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ subdir('tests') # test binaries would link against the library here ## Why is there not a Make backend? Because Make is slow. This is not an implementation issue, Make simply -can not be made fast. For further info we recommend you read [this +cannot be made fast. For further info we recommend you read [this post](http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html) by Evan Martin, the author of Ninja. Makefiles also have a syntax that is very unpleasant to write which makes them a big maintenance burden. @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ projects attempting to do just this: Meson needs to know several details about each compiler in order to compile code with it. These include things such as which compiler flags to use for each option and how to detect the compiler from its -output. This information can not be input via a configuration file, +output. This information cannot be input via a configuration file, instead it requires changes to Meson's source code that need to be submitted to Meson master repository. In theory you can run your own forked version with custom patches, but that's not good use of your |