In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/c23a69e83f410b43450b9f1e9696d04795aae758?hp=1695f8293d29cfc0f8b6787db59b06fc1b02c94d>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit c23a69e83f410b43450b9f1e9696d04795aae758 Author: Andy Dougherty <[email protected]> Date: Tue Jul 30 10:57:32 2013 -0400 Mention the 'make clean' makefile target [perl #38307]. Mention the 'make clean' target in INSTALL. It cleans up a lot, but not everything. Since perl is used extensively in its own build process, it may involve attempting to build perl in order to clean up. Alternatively, we could just make 'clean' an alias for 'realclean'. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: INSTALL | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index c4d2247..4a141eb 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2271,7 +2271,9 @@ or make realclean The only difference between the two is that make distclean also removes -your old config.sh and Policy.sh files. +your old config.sh and Policy.sh files. (A plain 'make clean' will not +delete the makefiles used for rebuilding perl, and will also not delete +a number of library and utility files extracted during the build process.) If you are upgrading from a previous version of perl, or if you change systems or compilers or make other significant changes, or if -- Perl5 Master Repository
