On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 11:08 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > The motivation for this patch is that I've seen code like this in the > wild: > > FILES = $(sort $(wildcard t*.sh)) > > I thought that it would be documented that that sort of thing was > redundant, but I didn't find any mention of it in the manual. After > some source spelunking I came up with this addition, which would have > helped me when I consulted the manual.
Originally it was not _guaranteed_ that wildcard yields sorted output. However, the output did happen to be sorted in older versions of GNU make. In GNU make 3.82, that was changed to yield unsorted output. As of GNU make 4.3, it was changed back and it is now guaranteed that wildcard results are sorted: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52076 I thought that I had updated the documentation to make this guarantee clear but perhaps I forgot?
