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authorReiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de>2016-05-14 10:30:36 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2016-05-17 14:12:11 (GMT)
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file: Sort GLOB results to make it deterministic (#14491)
Even though the `file(GLOB)` documentation specifically warns against using it to collect a list of source files, projects often do it anyway. Since it uses `readdir()`, the list of files will be unsorted. This list is often passed directly to add_executable / add_library. Linking binaries with an unsorted list will make it unreproducible, which means that the produced binary will differ depending on the unpredictable `readdir()` order. To solve those reproducibility issues in a lot of programs (which don't explicitly `list(SORT)` the list manually), sort the resulting list of the `file(GLOB)` command. A more detailed rationale about reproducible builds is available [here](https://reproducible-builds.org/).
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