Bug#824808: gdal: please make the build reproducible (fileordering)

[Alexis Bienvenüe]

Le 20/05/2016 11:18, Sebastiaan Couwenberg a écrit :
> The second patches seems better because it doesn't rely on external ls
> which is not a given for the Windows builds.

OK I see.

> I don't understand the need for the buildit target, isn't it sufficient
> to do the wildcard sorting in the $(LIBGDAL) target?

In some situations some of the target dependencies do not exist before
the "make target" call. When this arises, as $(wildcard) is expanded
before building the dependencies, it can miss some files… I was not sure
of the situation here, so I added a transitional target to be safe.

> I've modified your patch to do that, and that seems to work too.
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/gdal.git/tree/debian/patches/sort-files-in-static-library.patch?id=caf37a5adc5ea187af41b0faca799f45d2364bec

Thanks!

Regards,
Alexis.