make(1): adding sort modifiers

[John-Mark Gurney]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:01 -0700:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:39:00AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes. What's your point?

The comment of impossible or hard made me think you were advocating
dropping the requirement of sorted SUBDIR's since make now does that.

But assuming from your response, that was not the case.

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