bug#33922: failing git-annex build

[Timothy Sample]

Hi again,

Timothy Sample <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> The most appropriate line to modify would then be this:
>>
>>     confs = map (path </>) $ filter (".conf" `isSuffixOf`) fs
>>
>> where “fs” is the list of FilePath values (strings).  I think you can
>> just do this:
>>
>>     confs = map (path </>) $ filter (".conf" `isSuffixOf`) (sort fs)
>>
>> because “fs” is of type [FilePath], which is [String], which is sortable
>> via “sort” as String has an Ord instance.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> I thought about this approach, but I was worried it wouldn’t be so easy.
> What you suggest looks pretty straight-forward though.  I will test
> everything with this approach and report back.  If it works, I agree
> that it is better.

The results are in and this seems to do the trick, too.  I built GHC and
the packages I mentioned before on two different machines, and
everything came out identical.   Hence, LGTM.


-- Tim