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@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ $ ninja -C build
 ```
 
 On FreeBSD, `ld` does not look by default in /usr/local/lib, and you will get errors about some libraries being not found.
-To fix that, append `LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"`:
+To fix that, prepend `LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"`:
 ```bash
 $ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" meson --buildtype=release . build
 $ ninja -C build