Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:33:04AM +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote: > > [https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2010-07/msg00023.html] > > > > " * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibility! > > " Wildcards are not documented as returning sorted values, but up to and > > " including this release the results have been sorted and some makefiles > > are > > " apparently depending on that. In the next release of GNU make, for > > " performance reasons, we may remove that sorting. If your makefiles > > " require sorted results from wildcard expansions, use the $(sort ...) > > " function to request it explicitly. > > > > (But the change actually went into 3.82, not a future release; as the > > ChangeLog in the source says: > > > > " 2010-08-13 Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > > " > > " * NEWS: Accidentally forgot to back out the sorted wildcard > > " enhancement in 3.82, so update NEWS. > > > > -- after it had already been posted to the mailing list as a threat of > > *future* change...) > > > > "for performance reasons", they broke backwards compatibility and > > potentially packages throughout the universe of software development? > > Augh... > > Yes, I also think that this is very unfortunate. > The performance "impact" is only visible in build processes and doesn't > affect end users, and even there it is probably negligible for almost all > packages. > But at the time of the change reproducible builds weren't considered as > that important yet and they probably didn't see any disadvantage in omitting > the sorting.
ouch.
did someone already reported this to the make upstream developers as a
problem for reproducible builds everywhere?
> I think the best solution would be to change the default again to let
> wildcard sort the lists (it will probably make a bunch of packages
> reproducible without having to touch them). And if someone really
> needs this bit of extra-performance, a fast-wildcard or unsorted-wildcard
> could be added.
yup
& thanks for bringing this news to us!
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cheers,
Holger
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