Josh Steadmon <steadmon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I see this line in the docs [1]: "As with wildcard expansion in rules, > the results of the wildcard function are sorted". GNU Make has restored > the sorted behavior of $(wildcard) since 2018 [2]. I'll leave the sort > off for now, but if folks feel like we need to support older versions of > `make`, I'll add it back. > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Wildcard-Function.html > [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52076 Thanks for digging. I thought I was certain that woldcard is sorted and stable and was quite perplexed when I could not find the mention in a version of doc I had handy ("""This is Edition 0.75, last updated 19 January 2020, of 'The GNU Make Manual', for GNU 'make' version 4.3.""").
