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On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:46:17PM +0200, Matthew Horsfall wrote: > In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated > > commit bf8aad214cb307418f11b7bc35e29edeba6b5de1 > Author: Matthew Horsfall <wolfsage@gmail.com> > Date: Mon Jun 23 08:40:08 2014 -0400 > > RMG: Use -Dusedevel in ./Configure, like everywhere else in the RMG. > > M Porting/release_managers_guide.pod Surely the use of -Dusedevel should depend on whether you are testing a development release or a production release. > commit f32e93edaa93e78bc9ca7c6d0be0650a8c6d3f88 > Author: Matthew Horsfall <wolfsage@gmail.com> > Date: Mon Jun 23 08:37:31 2014 -0400 > > RMG: Remove useless 'make distclean', save time > $ cd root/of/perl/tree > - $ make distclean > $ git clean -xdf # make sure perl and git agree on files > $ git status # and there's nothing lying around This test isn't useless and so shouldn't be skipped. When working on tarballs rather than on a git-based repository, the 'git clean' command isn't available; in this case we provide the 'make distclean' target to allow the end user to achieve a similar effect. While we continue to support 'make distclean' (and a separate discussion could be had about that), we should check that the tarballs we ship have a functional 'make distclean'. -- But Pity stayed his hand. "It's a pity I've run out of bullets", he thought. -- "Bored of the Rings"Thread Next