Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 01/40] trace: add build framework for merging trace-events files

[Eric Blake]

On 06/14/2016 06:26 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 05:57:55PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> +$(BUILD_DIR)/trace-events-all: $(trace-events-y:%=$(SRC_PATH)/%)
>> +    $(call quiet-command,cat $^ > $@)
> 
> $^ needs to be a stable ordering across make invocations and across
> machines to avoid thrashing ccache and spuriously renumbering trace
> event IDs.
> 
> I guess it is stable but just in case anyone knows of a case where $^
> would change order without any changes to the actual files (e.g.
> readdir(2) returning things in a different order, make parallel jobs,
> etc)...

As far as I can tell from 'info make', $^ is the list of prerequisites,
_in prerequisite order_, minus duplicates.  So the only way the order
will change is if you edit Makefile, and thus it looks stable to me.

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