Re: [PATCH] trivial little Makefile patch (2.3.49-2)

From: Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.cx)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:03:06 EST


Hi all.

>> I do not know if this is usb-related as much as l-k
>> related, but this is a patch to fix 'make modules_install'.
>> The order that 'sort' spits out files is not the same as
>> the order of the files when you do a normal 'ls' (sorting
>> by name).

> - ls -1 -U *.o | sort > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \
> + ls -1 *.o | sort > $$MODLIB/.allmods; \

> I don't see how removing the -U can affect anything with
> the sort there.

Would this be related to the version of sort that had the -f flag
always defined? If so, the result of that is to sort insensitive
to upper or lower case, but I can't see that causing any problems.

Best wishes from Riley.

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