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When building packages (e.g. for openSUSE Linux) in disposable VMs every build gave a different result. This patch fixes this by sorting hash keys See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this matters. was also filed at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119888
so that ConfigData.pm ld_shared_libs builds in a reproducible way in spite of indeterministic filesystem readdir order. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
because the behaviour of sort in scalar context is undefined
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When building packages (e.g. for openSUSE Linux) in disposable VMs
every build gave a different result.
This patch fixes this by sorting hash keys
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this matters.
was also filed at
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119888