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.

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 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'