Re: [Module-build-general] [BUG] ./Build realclean does not rm Makefile

[Steve P. <sp...@qu...>]

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 06:57  pm, Ken Williams wrote:

> but mixing the two, i.e.
>
>  perl Makefile.PL
>  ...
>  Build realclean
>
> will leave an orphan Makefile around.
>
> As for a fix, it's probably not a great idea to remove the Makefile 
> when doing 'Build realclean', but maybe the subsequent failure modes 
> could be cleaned up a bit.

Don't see why the Makefile shouldn't be removed by 'Build realclean' - 
unless it's been modified or is not part of the project.  But it would 
be easy enough to scan it for some auto-generated text before deleting. 
  At any rate, I'm easy either way - if 'make realclean' checks for 
Build before trying to run it, that works for me.

In fact, it might be an idea for all the targets to do that?

On second thought, does it really matter if the Makefile dies 
gracefully or not in this situation?

-Steve