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.

15 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py
index e802217..d8b05b1 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/ninjabackend.py
@@ -2602,7 +2602,7 @@ https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47485'''))
         # inside it.  This can be either the final PDB (for, say,
         # foo.exe) or an object pdb (for foo.obj). If the former, then
         # each compilation step locks the pdb file for writing, which
-        # is a bottleneck and object files from one target can not be
+        # is a bottleneck and object files from one target cannot be
         # used in a different target. The latter seems to be the
         # sensible one (and what Unix does) but there is a catch.  If
         # you try to use precompiled headers MSVC will error out
@@ -3123,7 +3123,7 @@ https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47485'''))
     def guess_external_link_dependencies(self, linker, target, commands, internal):
         # Ideally the linker would generate dependency information that could be used.
         # But that has 2 problems:
-        # * currently ld can not create dependency information in a way that ninja can use:
+        # * currently ld cannot create dependency information in a way that ninja can use:
         #   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22843
         # * Meson optimizes libraries from the same build using the symbol extractor.
         #   Just letting ninja use ld generated dependencies would undo this optimization.
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/vs2010backend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/vs2010backend.py
index 47e19a4..37d0365 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/vs2010backend.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/vs2010backend.py
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ class Vs2010Backend(backends.Backend):
         ofname_tmp = ofname + '~'
         tree.write(ofname_tmp, encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)
 
-        # ElementTree can not do prettyprinting so do it manually
+        # ElementTree cannot do pretty-printing, so do it manually
         doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(ofname_tmp)
         with open(ofname_tmp, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as of:
             of.write(doc.toprettyxml())
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
index b5cf83a..523f842 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
@@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ class XCodeBackend(backends.Backend):
                         # add the root build dir to the search path. So add an absolute path instead.
                         # This may break reproducible builds, in which case patches are welcome.
                         lang_cargs += self.get_custom_target_dir_include_args(target, compiler, absolute_path=True)
-                    # Xcode can not handle separate compilation flags for C and ObjectiveC. They are both
+                    # Xcode cannot handle separate compilation flags for C and ObjectiveC. They are both
                     # put in OTHER_CFLAGS. Same with C++ and ObjectiveC++.
                     if lang == 'objc':
                         lang = 'c'
diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py
index 0cab04e..5408b21 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/build.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/build.py
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ class ExtractedObjects(HoldableObject):
 
         for comp, srcs in extracted_cmpsrcs.items():
             if set(srcs) != set(cmpsrcs[comp]):
-                raise MesonException('Single object files can not be extracted '
+                raise MesonException('Single object files cannot be extracted '
                                      'in Unity builds. You can only extract all '
                                      'the object files for each compiler at once.')
 
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/cs.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/cs.py
index 14fcfd7..f0bed5f 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/cs.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/cs.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class CsCompiler(BasicLinkerIsCompilerMixin, Compiler):
         pc = subprocess.Popen(self.exelist + self.get_always_args() + [src], cwd=work_dir)
         pc.wait()
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise EnvironmentException('C# compiler %s can not compile programs.' % self.name_string())
+            raise EnvironmentException('C# compiler %s cannot compile programs.' % self.name_string())
         if self.runner:
             cmdlist = [self.runner, obj]
         else:
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/cuda.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/cuda.py
index 9bf263c..70a4fe9 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/cuda.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/cuda.py
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ class CudaCompiler(Compiler):
         mlog.debug(stde)
         mlog.debug('-----')
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise EnvironmentException(f'Compiler {self.name_string()} can not compile programs.')
+            raise EnvironmentException(f'Compiler {self.name_string()} cannot compile programs.')
 
         # Run sanity check (if possible)
         if self.is_cross:
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py
index 15b22d6..5d43a60 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/d.py
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ class DCompiler(Compiler):
         pc = subprocess.Popen(self.exelist + self.get_output_args(output_name) + self._get_target_arch_args() + [source_name], cwd=work_dir)
         pc.wait()
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise EnvironmentException('D compiler %s can not compile programs.' % self.name_string())
+            raise EnvironmentException('D compiler %s cannot compile programs.' % self.name_string())
         if self.is_cross:
             if self.exe_wrapper is None:
                 # Can't check if the binaries run so we have to assume they do
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/java.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/java.py
index ebae509..42cf0a1 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/java.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/java.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class JavaCompiler(BasicLinkerIsCompilerMixin, Compiler):
         pc = subprocess.Popen(self.exelist + [src], cwd=work_dir)
         pc.wait()
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise EnvironmentException(f'Java compiler {self.name_string()} can not compile programs.')
+            raise EnvironmentException(f'Java compiler {self.name_string()} cannot compile programs.')
         runner = shutil.which(self.javarunner)
         if runner:
             cmdlist = [runner, obj]
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py
index e3579a9..8c17b5b 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/clike.py
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ class CLikeCompiler(Compiler):
         mlog.debug(stde)
         mlog.debug('-----')
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise mesonlib.EnvironmentException(f'Compiler {self.name_string()} can not compile programs.')
+            raise mesonlib.EnvironmentException(f'Compiler {self.name_string()} cannot compile programs.')
         # Run sanity check
         if self.is_cross:
             if self.exe_wrapper is None:
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/visualstudio.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/visualstudio.py
index 119a2bf..12522e1 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/visualstudio.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/visualstudio.py
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ class MSVCCompiler(VisualStudioLikeCompiler):
         if self.version.split('.')[0] == '16' and instruction_set == 'avx':
             # VS documentation says that this exists and should work, but
             # it does not. The headers do not contain AVX intrinsics
-            # and they can not be called.
+            # and they cannot be called.
             return None
         return super().get_instruction_set_args(instruction_set)
 
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/rust.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/rust.py
index 9e5ebc8..2d158e3 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/rust.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/rust.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class RustCompiler(Compiler):
         stdo = _stdo.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
         stde = _stde.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise EnvironmentException('Rust compiler {} can not compile programs.\n{}\n{}'.format(
+            raise EnvironmentException('Rust compiler {} cannot compile programs.\n{}\n{}'.format(
                 self.name_string(),
                 stdo,
                 stde))
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/swift.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/swift.py
index ec4c7a3..ebf29f8 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/swift.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/swift.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class SwiftCompiler(Compiler):
         pc = subprocess.Popen(self.exelist + extra_flags + ['-emit-executable', '-o', output_name, src], cwd=work_dir)
         pc.wait()
         if pc.returncode != 0:
-            raise EnvironmentException('Swift compiler %s can not compile programs.' % self.name_string())
+            raise EnvironmentException('Swift compiler %s cannot compile programs.' % self.name_string())
         if self.is_cross:
             # Can't check if the binaries run so we have to assume they do
             return
diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/vala.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/vala.py
index 23b01a3..40cfc14 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/vala.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/vala.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class ValaCompiler(Compiler):
             extra_flags += environment.coredata.get_external_link_args(self.for_machine, self.language)
         with self.cached_compile(code, environment.coredata, extra_args=extra_flags, mode='compile') as p:
             if p.returncode != 0:
-                msg = f'Vala compiler {self.name_string()!r} can not compile programs'
+                msg = f'Vala compiler {self.name_string()!r} cannot compile programs'
                 raise EnvironmentException(msg)
 
     def get_buildtype_args(self, buildtype: str) -> T.List[str]:
diff --git a/mesonbuild/modules/gnome.py b/mesonbuild/modules/gnome.py
index a0e5330..019b1ea 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/modules/gnome.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/modules/gnome.py
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ class GnomeModule(ExtensionModule):
                 depends.append(dep)
                 subdirs.append(dep.get_subdir())
                 if not mesonlib.version_compare(glib_version, gresource_dep_needed_version):
-                    m = 'The "dependencies" argument of gnome.compile_resources() can not\n' \
+                    m = 'The "dependencies" argument of gnome.compile_resources() cannot\n' \
                         'be used with the current version of glib-compile-resources due to\n' \
                         '<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774368>'
                     raise MesonException(m)
diff --git a/mesonbuild/mtest.py b/mesonbuild/mtest.py
index acf28a2..53550b5 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/mtest.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/mtest.py
@@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ class SingleTestRunner:
 
     async def run(self, harness: 'TestHarness') -> TestRun:
         if self.cmd is None:
-            self.stdo = 'Not run because can not execute cross compiled binaries.'
+            self.stdo = 'Not run because cannot execute cross compiled binaries.'
             harness.log_start_test(self.runobj)
             self.runobj.complete_skip()
         else: