RE: [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] t0080: turn t-basic unit test into a helper

>On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 01:27:11PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> 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.""").
>
>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).