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diff --git a/docs/markdown/FAQ.md b/docs/markdown/FAQ.md index b0db361..bd2316f 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/FAQ.md +++ b/docs/markdown/FAQ.md @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ Instead of specifying files explicitly, people seem to want to do this: 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 if the user adds a new source file to the subdirectory, -Meson should detect that and make it part of the build automatically. +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 +if the user adds a new source file to the subdirectory, Meson should +detect that and make it part of the build automatically. One of the main requirements of Meson is that it must be fast. This means that a no-op build in a tree of 10 000 source files must take no @@ -396,12 +396,14 @@ advantages: so specifying `libfoo.a` instead of `foo.lib` does not change the workflow, and is an improvement since it's less ambiguous. -If, for some reason, you really need your project to output static libraries of -the form `foo.lib` when building with MSVC, you can set the +If, for some reason, you really need your project to output static +libraries of the form `foo.lib` when building with MSVC, you can set +the [`name_prefix:`](https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#library) -kwarg to `''` and the [`name_suffix:`](https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#library) -kwarg to `'lib'`. To get the default behaviour for each, you can either not -specify the kwarg, or pass `[]` (an empty array) to it. +kwarg to `''` and the +[`name_suffix:`](https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual.html#library) +kwarg to `'lib'`. To get the default behaviour for each, you can +either not specify the kwarg, or pass `[]` (an empty array) to it. ## Do I need to add my headers to the sources list like in Autotools? |