Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:01:12 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make(1): adding sort modifiers Message-ID: <24225.1063782072@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:51:27 PDT." <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
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In message <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar write s: > >--HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline > >Gang, > >Attached a patch that adds the functionality to make(1) to sort >the words in a variable. With this functionality and a small >change to bsd.subdir.mk (also attached), we automaticly have >sorted subdirectory recursion, even though it's impossible or >hard to do it in the makesfiles themselves. Is this too evil? Do we actually want to do that ? I thought we had places where the ordering was explicit to express dependencies ? (Just to be clear: this is a concern for the bsd.subdir.mk part, not the make(1) part of the patch) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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