Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Likewise (mine is the latest version in Debian unstable). The change to > sort comes from their[1] eedea52a, which was in GNU make 4.2.90. But the > matching documentation change didn't happen until 5b993ae, which was > 4.3.90 in late 2021. So that explains the mystery. > > Those dates imply to me that we should keep the $(sort), though. Six > years is not so long in distro timescales, especially given that Debian > unstable is on a 4-year-old version. (And if we did want to get rid of > it, certainly we should do so consistently across the Makefile in a > separate patch). Sounds sensible. The topic is expecting a reroll so I'll make sure I won't touch it until I see an update. Thanks.
