Re: [Module::Build] PL_Files and add_to_cleanup

[John P. <jpe...@ro...>]

Randy W. Sims wrote:
>   while (my ($file, $to) = each %$files) {
>     unless ($self->up_to_date( $file, $to )) {
>       $self->run_perl_script($file, [], [@$to]);
>       $self->add_to_cleanup(@$to);

That does seem like it should DTRT.

> Under what conditions does it fail to clean up?

I noticed it failing in my development directory, in this instance for
SVN::Notify::Mirror.  If I expand the tar into a temp directory (like CPANPLUS
would do), everything works fine.  I just tried to reproduce the problem by
manually deleting the files in question and then going through:

	$ perl Build.PL
	$ ./Build test
	$ ./Build distclean

and this time the generated files were deleted (though I swear I already went
through this loop several times).

Mark it down as a Heisenbug...

John

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