On Sun, 2022-10-16 at 12:17 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Commit 621d3196fae9 ([SV 62100] Add '--shuffle' option support) > introduced randomisation of prerequisites, so as to detect more > build ordering issues, especially with parallel builds. It also > made randomisation the default.
I'm not sure I understand the goal of this patch. If you don't want randomization, just don't add the --shuffle option and you won't get any randomization. The behavior of make without the --shuffle option hasn't changed from what it was before: it will never be the case that shuffle is the default "always on" behavior because POSIX mandates the order in which prerequisites are considered. So I don't see why we would say that both "make" and "make --shuffle" do the same thing (no shuffle). If you've added --shuffle then I'd expect you'd want to see shuffling...? Am I wrong and there is some way to get shuffle mode enabled even without the --shuffle option? That would definitely be a bug!
