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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:39:00 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
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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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