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To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:51:27 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:01:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: make(1): adding sort modifiers 
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In message <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar write
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>Gang,
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>Attached a patch that adds the functionality to make(1) to sort
>the words in a variable. With this functionality and a small
>change to bsd.subdir.mk (also attached), we automaticly have
>sorted subdirectory recursion, even though it's impossible or
>hard to do it in the makesfiles themselves. Is this too evil?

Do we actually want to do that ?  I thought we had places
where the ordering was explicit to express dependencies ?

(Just to be clear:  this is a concern for the bsd.subdir.mk
part, not the make(1) part of the patch)


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