Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:39:00 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make(1): adding sort modifiers Message-ID: <20030917073900.GG39788@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 23:51 -0700:
> sorted subdirectory recursion, even though it's impossible or
> hard to do it in the makesfiles themselves. Is this too evil?
I always thought that sorted SUBDIR lines in the Makefile was for
aiding the developer in seeing what is available, and where to put
the new module.
I don't know about you, but seeing a bunch of unsorted SUBDIRs wouldn't
feel right.
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