Reapply r922 with the dependencies reversed.

pylib/gyp/input.py

Index: pylib/gyp/input.py
diff --git a/pylib/gyp/input.py b/pylib/gyp/input.py
index 3fe7bc5fa8357cd874d4af8e7b100d437c8bc1a2..b0adabd7c4e09757edb61b245619c98ccfd33766 100644
--- a/pylib/gyp/input.py
+++ b/pylib/gyp/input.py
@@ -1545,6 +1545,20 @@ def AdjustStaticLibraryDependencies(flat_list, targets, dependency_nodes):
           target_dict['dependencies'] = []
         if not dependency in target_dict['dependencies']:
           target_dict['dependencies'].append(dependency)
+      # Sort the dependencies list in the order from dependents to dependencies.
+      # e.g. If A and B depend on C and C depends on D, sort them in A, B, C, D.
+      # Note: flat_list is already sorted in the order from dependencies to
+      # dependents.
+      if 'dependencies' in target_dict:
+        target_dict['dependencies'] = [
+            dep for dep in flat_list if dep in target_dict['dependencies']]
+
+        # The final step to implement the above algorithm would be to reverse
+        # the dependencies:
+        #   target_dict['dependencies'].reverse()
+        # as an experiment, leave this out so we can measure its impact on
+        # build performance.
+
 
 # Initialize this here to speed up MakePathRelative.
 exception_re = re.compile(r'''["']?[-/$<>]''')