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On Tue Jul 30 08:38:01 2013, doughera wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:13:49PM -0700, "James E Keenan via RT" wrote:
>
> > Fergal, Nicholas: Please review the patch to INSTALL attached.
>
> Thank you for following up on this old ticket.
>
> I have applied the following patch to INSTALL to document what the
> make clean target actually does. Whether or not that's useful depends
> on what the user is trying to do. This does not solve the original
> poster's problem that 'make clean' might attempt to build perl as part
> of the cleanup process, but I don't see anyway to solve that problem.
> ('make realclean' suffers from the same problem, so my comment earlier
> on this ticket about clean vs. realclean was not relevant.)
>
> commit c23a69e83f410b43450b9f1e9696d04795aae758
> Author: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
> Date: Tue Jul 30 10:57:32 2013 -0400
>
> Mention the 'make clean' makefile target [perl #38307].
>
> Mention the 'make clean' target in INSTALL. It cleans up a lot,
> but not everything. Since perl is used extensively in its own
> build process, it may involve attempting to build perl in order
> to clean up. Alternatively, we could just make 'clean' an
> alias for 'realclean'.
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index c4d2247..4a141eb 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -2271,7 +2271,9 @@ or
> make realclean
>
> The only difference between the two is that make distclean also removes
> -your old config.sh and Policy.sh files.
> +your old config.sh and Policy.sh files. (A plain 'make clean' will not
> +delete the makefiles used for rebuilding perl, and will also not delete
> +a number of library and utility files extracted during the build
process.)
>
> If you are upgrading from a previous version of perl, or if you
> change systems or compilers or make other significant changes, or if
>
>
Since there have been no complaints about Andy's patch, I am closing
this ticket -- after a mere 7-1/2 years :-( .
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open
https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38307
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