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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 9523bfd..40c4d7e 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ to be fast. It is born from http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html[my work on the Chromium browser project], which has over 30,000 source files and whose other build systems (including one built from custom -non-recursive Makefiles) can take ten seconds to start building after -changing one file. Ninja is under a second. +non-recursive Makefiles) would take ten seconds to start building +after changing one file. Ninja is under a second. Philosophical overview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ create your project's `.ninja` files. Comparison to Make ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Ninja is closest in spirit and functionality to make, relying on +Ninja is closest in spirit and functionality to Make, relying on simple dependencies between file timestamps. But fundamentally, make has a lot of _features_: suffix rules, @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ builds correct while punting most complexity to generation of the ninja input files. Ninja by itself is unlikely to be useful for most projects. -Here are some of the features Ninja adds to make. (These sorts of +Here are some of the features Ninja adds to Make. (These sorts of features can often be implemented using more complicated Makefiles, but they are not part of make itself.) @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ example, the `demo` rule prints "this is a demo of bar". ---- rule demo - command = echo "this is a demo of $foo' + command = echo "this is a demo of $foo" build out: demo foo = bar |