Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
> Aside: I found it difficult to figure out how to submit patches to
> this project. The Savannah page suggests the bug tracker, but as af
> writing (and I'm logged in, as "avar") that link appears greyed out
> in the web interface, and has a .
I added a note to
On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 22:10 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Would a patch that's updated to note that, and discusses the behavior
> in older versions be acceptable for inclusion?
I added a note about this to the docs. Thanks for pointing it out!
It was documented but only in NEWS:
martind@sirius:~/download/make$ sgrep wildcard | grep sort
./NEWS:179:* All wildcard expansion within GNU make, including $(wildcard ...),
will sort
./NEWS:426: results from wildcard expansions, use the $(sort ...) function to
request
./ChangeLog.3:1586: *
On Fri, Dec 03 2021, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 11:08 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> The motivation for this patch is that I've seen code like this in the
>> wild:
>>
>> FILES = $(sort $(wildcard t*.sh))
>>
>> I thought that it would be documented that that sort
On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 11:08 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> The motivation for this patch is that I've seen code like this in the
> wild:
>
> FILES = $(sort $(wildcard t*.sh))
>
> I thought that it would be documented that that sort of thing was
> redundant, but I didn't find any
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 3:19 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> The motivation for this patch is that I've seen code like this in the
> wild:
>
> FILES = $(sort $(wildcard t*.sh))
>
> I thought that it would be documented that that sort of thing was
> redundant, but I didn't find any
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 9:19 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> The $subject isn't strictly true, as the it's implemented in terms of
> MatchFirst() on Amiga, but that's obscure enough to not be noted in
> the manual
Then the manual will be lying to the users of amiga, right?
> and in any
