On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 3:19 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> 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 mention of it in the manual.
Just for reference, the output of $(wildcard) wasn't sorted before make 4.3. As stated in the relevant bug report: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52076 the code you spotted in the wild is in fact the most portable use of wildcard when the order matters. Regards, - Jouke
