On Jun 2, 2020, at 8:33 PM, Andrew Fish via groups.io <afish=apple.com@groups.io> wrote:

On May 29, 2020, at 7:02 AM, Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com> wrote:

The description of [Packages] sections stated that
"Packages must be listed in the order that may be required for specifying
include path statements for a compiler. For example, the
MdePkg/MdePkg.dec file must be listed before the
MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec file."

Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
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Surely this isn't something we take seriously?
If there is a measurable performance impact to the order of -I option
on the compiler command line, we should approach this programmatically.

I think the intent of this was to deal with duplicates include file names, and it was not really about build performance. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

3_edk_ii_inf_file_format/37_[packages]_sections.md | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/3_edk_ii_inf_file_format/37_[packages]_sections.md b/3_edk_ii_inf_file_format/37_[packages]_sections.md
index 17a8d91..c09112b 100644
--- a/3_edk_ii_inf_file_format/37_[packages]_sections.md
+++ b/3_edk_ii_inf_file_format/37_[packages]_sections.md
@@ -42,11 +42,8 @@ Defines the `[Packages]` section tag that is used in EDK II module INF files.
Each entry in this section contains a directory name, forward slash character
and the name of the DEC file contained in the directory name.

-Packages must be listed in the order that may be required for specifying
-include path statements for a compiler. For example, the _MdePkg/MdePkg.dec_
-file must be listed before the `MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dec` file. If there
-are PCDs listed in the generated "As Built" INF, the packages that declare any
-PCDs must be listed in this section.
+If there are PCDs listed in the generated "As Built" INF, the packages that
+declare any PCDs must be listed in this section.

Each package filename must be listed only once per section. Package filenames
listed in architectural sections are not permitted to be listed in the common
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