[bug #49590] wildcard no longer give sorted output in version 4.2

[kokapui]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49590>

                 Summary: wildcard no longer give sorted output in version 4.2
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: kokapui
            Submitted on: Sat 12 Nov 2016 01:05:29 AM GMT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.2
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:


The wildcard function returns sorted results in version 3.81, but it does do
the same in version 4.2. Is there any compile/runtime switch to control this
behavior? Or is it a bug?

Below shows the results from two version of GNU make.

$ ls a.mk a0.svp a1.svp a2.svp a3.svp a4.svp a5.svp a6.svp a7.svp a8.svp
a9.svp

$ cat a.mk 

SRC_FILES := $(wildcard *.svp)

all: @echo $(SRC_FILES)

$ make -f a.mk all
a0.svp a1.svp a2.svp a3.svp a4.svp a5.svp a6.svp a7.svp a8.svp a9.svp

$ ~/sandbox/bin/make -f a.mk all
a0.svp a1.svp a6.svp a5.svp a9.svp a4.svp a3.svp a2.svp a7.svp a8.svp

$make –v | head -n 1

GNU Make 3.81

$ ~/sandbox/bin/make -v | head -n 1

GNU Make 4.2





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