Hi,

 

There might be a bug in the “sort” program in GNU coreutils 8.4, present at least in CentOS 6 x86_64.  It’s not immediately obvious to me whether or not this bug has been reported before.

 

Given the following:

 

CC = gcc

CC = aCC

CCFLAGS =

CC = cc

 

sort (GNU coreutils) 8.4 yields:

 

CC = aCC

CC = cc

CCFLAGS =

CC = gcc

 

… the 3^rd line is out-of-order.  In comparison, sort (GNU coreutils) 8.14 in cygwin yields:

 

CC = aCC

CC = cc

CC = gcc

CCFLAGS =

 

… which is correct.