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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md b/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md index 4133979..c520773 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Design-rationale.md @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ may not work. In some cases the executable file is a binary whereas at other times it is a wrapper shell script that invokes the real binary which resides in a hidden subdirectory. GDB invocation fails if the binary is a script but succeeds if it is not. The user has to remember -the type of each one of his executables (which is an implementation -detail of the build system) just to be able to debug them. Several -other such pain points can be found in [this blog +the type of each executable (which is an implementation detail of the +build system) just to be able to debug them. Several other such pain +points can be found in [this blog post](http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotools/). Given these idiosyncrasies it is no wonder that most people don't want @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ and so on. Sometimes you just have to compile files with only given compiler flags and no others, or install files in weird places. The system must -allow the user to do this if he really wants to. +allow the user to do this. Overview of the solution -- @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ passing around compiler flags and linker flags. In the proposed system the user just declares that a given build target uses a given external dependency. The build system then takes care of passing all flags and settings to their proper locations. This means that the user can focus -on his own code rather than marshalling command line arguments from +on their own code rather than marshalling command line arguments from one place to another. A DSL is more work than the approach taken by SCons, which is to |