Re: [patch] sort 'find' output to enable deterministic builds.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:12:07PM CET:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> >Yes, that may be it.  However, that also means that, while the patch
> >fixes things for you, it doesn't really add value to Libtool in the
> >sense that we cannot guarantee an improvement of some portable kind to
> >users.  That's ok per se, but of course not ideal.  ;-)
> 
> As long as build portability does not suffer, I think it is a good
> thing for builds to be as deterministic as possible.  Otherwise it
> is possible for the built binaries to perform differently from build
> to build.

I agree; it's just that we still can't promise anything.  Anyway, build
performance should not suffer too much from this patch since the sort's
are added only in places where we fork much already, so that isn't a big
problem either.

Now that the locale normalization patch is in place, I've committed this
patch now, and added Chris to THANKS.

Cheers,
Ralf

2010-03-19  Chris Demetriou  <address@hidden>

        Sort output of 'find' to enable deterministic builds.
        * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_extract_archives): Sort
        output of 'find'.
        * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG): Likewise.
        * THANKS: Update.