On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: ... I love this idea. I often stumble upon this when updating external -Dmksymlink build dirs. With this patch I can see immediately which symlinks are now stale, before make or even make test will report some failures. > Given (a) and (b), the only solution as far as Configure is concerned is > to remove the "wrong" directory, to leave only the "right" directory. > The problem is that we can't rm -rf dist/$wrong because it might contain > user files. eg given this: Idea for improvement: The wrong dir should be detectable from MANIFEST or Porting/Maintainers.pl -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/Thread Previous | Thread Next