[perl #122820] 'make distclean' defect

On Sun Sep 21 18:40:52 2014, craig.a.berry@gmail.com wrote:
> The problem could be readily reduced to:
> 
> $ ./miniperl -Ilib make_ext.pl --target=all Exporter MAKE="make"
> $ ./miniperl -Ilib make_ext.pl --target=distclean Exporter MAKE="make"
> $ ls lib/Exporter.pm
> 
> and observing that lib/Exporter.pm was still there after it was
> created by the first command and should have been (but wasn't) cleaned
> up by the second command.
> 
> Fixed in 9fa5aa91434.
> 

I'm amazed that Craig solved this so quickly.

Craig's patch assumes -- correctly, IMO -- that 'make distclean' and 'git clean -dfx' have slightly different objectives.  Going back to the example I provided in section III.B above, I:

* Placed in my working directory a small shell script, mydebugconfigure.sh, wrapping around Configure.
* Configured with this script, built and test perl at blead (9fa5aa9143).
* Said: 'make distclean'.
* Then said: 'git clean -dfxn' to perform a dry-run of what 'git clean -dfx' would still deem needing removal to keep git happy:
#####
$ git clean -dfxn
Would remove mydebugconfigure.sh
#####

This DWIMs for me.

Thank you very much.
-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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• [perl #122820] 'make distclean' defect by Steve Hay via RT
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