On Sep 2, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Jos I. Boumans wrote:
from the term 'make distclean' i'd expect it to return my build
directory in to the state the MANIFEST dictates.
However, it seems to be actually only *telling* me what is wrong,
without actually removing the wrong files:
I believe this is intentional behavior. Consider the very common
case where you have just developed a new .pm or .t file and not
added it to your MANIFEST. You reflexively type "make realclean"
and your work disappears and you are sad.
Right - it should only be deleting files it knows it has created, or
which the user/author has included in the 'clean' parameter.
Note that the docs also say what it does: just a 'realclean' and then
'distcheck'.
Reading the documentation, that seems to be the intention as well :(
How would i invoke 'make' to clean out everything that's not in
the MANIFEST file?
Personally I'd just remove the directory and re-extract it from the
tarball, like CPAN.pm does.
-Ken
