hg: build-infra/jdk8/hotspot: Added a few more $(sort)'s on links

[Mike Duigou]

Will the sort commands be there permanently or is it just temporary until the builds are verified?

Does it offer any other benefits? I've previously seen linking ordering files used to improve locality in the linked binaries. (much like the recently discussed class list reordering: <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-July/010739.html>)

Mike

On Jul 12 2012, at 21:33 , Tim Bell wrote:

>> Why? What does it do?
> 
> When comparing the build-infra artifacts to the old style build artifacts, it helps a lot to have done operations like linking in the same order.
> 
> If this has any effect outside of trying to minimize the diffs between the two builds, than it would be a bug we need to understand.
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: david.holmes at oracle.com
> To: kelly.ohair at oracle.com
> Cc: build-infra-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:07:35 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: hg: build-infra/jdk8/hotspot: Added a few more $(sort)'s on links
> 
> On 13/07/2012 10:20 AM, kelly.ohair at oracle.com wrote:
>> Changeset: 805d7b998d04
>> Author:    ohair
>> Date:      2012-07-12 17:20 -0700
>> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/build-infra/jdk8/hotspot/rev/805d7b998d04
>> 
>> Added a few more $(sort)'s on links
> 
> Why? What does it do?
> 
> David
> 
>> ! make/bsd/makefiles/launcher.make
>> ! make/bsd/makefiles/vm.make
>> ! make/linux/makefiles/launcher.make
>> ! make/linux/makefiles/vm.make
>> ! make/solaris/makefiles/launcher.make
>> ! make/solaris/makefiles/vm.make
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