On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 08:12:51AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > But I understood that the impetus for this feature would be to compare > builds between two completely different workspaces. It doesn't seem > very useful (to me) to ensure the order of two builds within the same > workspace since unless it's a clean build the output will be different.
A clean build is exactly the use case. Right now: make clean ; make > before.log 2>&1 # change something make clean ; make > after.log 2>&1 diff -u before.log after.log That takes an excessively long time, because the build has to run sequentially. With deterministic ordering: make clean ; make --deterministic-ordering -j$(ncpus) > before.log 2>&1 # change something make clean ; make --deterministic-ordering -j$(ncpus) > after.log 2>&1 diff -u before.log after.log - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
