[P5P] distclean broken on Win32

[P5P] distclean broken on Win32

	Karen Etheridge
	Sep 20, 2014 at 6:14 pm

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 08:45:05AM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
I don't know why we don't just make
"distclean" an alias for the git command and be done with it. :(

You can't assume that everyone is working within a git repository.

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John Peacock: I'm pretty sure this has been broken for years on Linux, since I know I complained about it at least 2-3 years ago. On those rare times I do core dev work I have to remember the "git clean" options when switching branches. I don't know why we don't just make "distclean" an alias for the git command and be done with it. :( John

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Craig A. Berry: Indeed. I see the same list on OS X that Steve sees on Windows. Quite a few of these have explicit rules in the _cleaner2 target in Makefile.SH, e.g., -rmdir lib/Exporter lib/Encode/Unicode lib/Encode/MIME/Header but that rmdir probably fails if the directory is not empty as is in fact the case with lib/Exporter. At first glance it appears to have something to do with the cases where we generate pm_to_blib directly and neither generate nor run a Makefile.PL. Possibly there is something
John Peacock: You can also test to see whether you _are_ inside a git clone and then DTRT instead of leaving debris behind. It would be great if someone actually fixed the Makefile dependencies, but as I said, I complained about this years ago and got the suggestion to use git. John
James E Keenan: Since this is a clear defect and not limited to Win32, I have opened a ticket in RT which summarizes the discussion in this thread, summarizes current documentation of the different commands, provides examples and poses one policy question to be decided. Could I ask that discussion move to: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122820 (or its mailing list equivalent when that shows up)? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

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