Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: create reproducible html

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 10:27 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> > There aren't any places in the Xen build system where the performance
> > impact of sorting is relevant.
> 
> No idea how much the gain was when automated sorting was removed from
> make(1).
> 
> > A rule that $(wildcard ) in Makefiles should always be accompanied by
> > $(sort ) is simple, clear, easy to understand, and directly addresses
> > the unpredictability at source.
> 
> Ok, I will adjust the outstanding patches to that rule.

Would a helper macro so we can just write
        $(call wildcard,arg arg arg)
instead of
        $(sort $(wildcard arg arg arg))
be possible and/or useful?

Ian.


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