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-rw-r--r--lib/Automake/Variable.pm14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Automake/Variable.pm b/lib/Automake/Variable.pm
index f1559f58c..4751563a3 100644
--- a/lib/Automake/Variable.pm
+++ b/lib/Automake/Variable.pm
@@ -317,21 +317,21 @@ use vars '%_variable_dict', '%_primary_dict';
sub variables (;$)
{
my ($suffix) = @_;
+ my @vars = ();
if ($suffix)
{
if (exists $_primary_dict{$suffix})
{
- return values %{$_primary_dict{$suffix}};
- }
- else
- {
- return ();
+ @vars = values %{$_primary_dict{$suffix}};
}
}
else
{
- return values %_variable_dict;
+ @vars = values %_variable_dict;
}
+ # The behaviour of the 'sort' built-in is undefined in scalar
+ # context, hence we need an ad-hoc handling for such context.
+ return wantarray ? sort { $a->name cmp $b->name } @vars : scalar @vars;
}
=item C<Automake::Variable::reset>
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ For debugging.
sub variables_dump ()
{
my $text = "all variables:\n{\n";
- foreach my $var (sort { $a->name cmp $b->name } variables)
+ foreach my $var (variables())
{
$text .= $var->dump;
}