Hi, When automake is installing files, it does so in a non-deterministic order. For example, in the same situation, sometimes "automake -a" outputs
configure.in:5: installing `./config.sub' configure.in:3: installing `./install-sh' configure.in:3: installing `./missing' configure.in:5: installing `./config.guess' and sometimes it outputs configure.in:5: installing `./config.guess' configure.in:3: installing `./install-sh' configure.in:3: installing `./missing' configure.in:5: installing `./config.sub' I'm using a program called 'rerun' that helps me monitor the long output of automake/autoconf/autopoint/gnulib-tool/etc. tools. It stores the output of a run in a hidden file and, at the next run, shows only the diffs between the last run and the current run. So it produces diffs like this for me: @@ -60,10 +1686,10 @@ Copying file po/insert-header.sin Copying file po/quot.sed Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin -configure.in:5: installing `./config.sub' +configure.in:5: installing `./config.guess' configure.in:3: installing `./install-sh' configure.in:3: installing `./missing' -configure.in:5: installing `./config.guess' +configure.in:5: installing `./config.sub' checking for a BSD-compatible install... /packages/gnu/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /packages/gnu/bin/mkdir -p These diffs distract the attention from the real changes. Can automake be made to use a deterministic hash table or sort the list of files before processing it? Bruno
