> On Jul 6, 2017, at 03:31, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 7/6/17 12:15 AM, Ngie Cooper wrote:
>> Author: ngie
>> Date: Thu Jul 6 04:15:30 2017
>> New Revision: 320701
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/320701
>>
>> Log:
>> Remove SUBDIR ordering/uniquifying in *bin/Makefile
>>
>> After the addition of SUBDIR.yes, uniquifying/ordering the SUBDIRs doesn't
>> make a whole lot of sense, and it's in effect a half measure.
>>
>> Ordering SUBDIR (after adding SUBDIR.yes to it) in bsd.subdir.mk is a
>> separate change that warrants more discussion/testing, because while
>> the SUBDIR_PARALLEL work largely fixed dependency ordering for SUBDIRs,
>> there might be downstream FreeBSD consumers that rely on the SUBDIR
>> ordering.
>
> FWIW, I (as a human) am used to sorted build output when watching the
> output of 'buildworld' to gauge how far it has completed. This was a
> feature that SVN broke (CVS would walk directories in sorted order so
> you could do the same sort of guessing for 'cvs up' but you can't for
> 'svn up'). It's not a hard dependency, per se, but it would be nice to
> preserve this feature if possible. I had noticed that it had become
> less correct "recently".
I have another change I'm going to propose soon which sorts SUBDIR output
(as a whole) again, as an opt-in feature in bsd.subdir.mk.
Cheers,
-Ngie
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