Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: create reproducible html

2015-02-03 Thread Olaf Hering
On Tue, Feb 03, Ian Campbell wrote: Would a helper macro so we can just write $(call wildcard,arg arg arg) instead of $(sort $(wildcard arg arg arg)) be possible and/or useful? Just for the or three two places its likely overkill. Olaf

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: create reproducible html

2015-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Olaf Hering writes (Re: [PATCH] docs: create reproducible html): On Mon, Feb 02, Ian Jackson wrote: What do you think ? Thats overkill. The maintainers of make removed the internal sort with 3.82, likely for performance reasons. Sorted lists are required only in a few places. The Xen

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: create reproducible html

2015-02-02 Thread Olaf Hering
The Makefile uses wildcard to collect a list of files. The resulting list of files is in directory order, which is random. As a result the generated html files will differ when build on different hosts. Use the built-in sort function to get a stable list of files. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs: create reproducible html

2015-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 14:40 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, Ian Jackson wrote: What do you think ? Thats overkill. The maintainers of make removed the internal sort with 3.82, likely for performance reasons. Aren't you adding uses of it here? Sorted lists are required only