Yves Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> a reportable bug that ought to be sent to p5p. (And Nick Ing-Simons or
>> Sarathy poked until one of them answers)
>
>Ok, well I did send this patch to P5P the first time, but maybe it got lost
>in the smoke stuff. So im resending it this time as well. Also ive sent this
>to Sarathy but I couldnt find Nick Ing-Simons email.

I for one don't use dmake distclean or nmake distclean
Instead I do :

cd ...\
win32/distclean.bat 

This is more-or less certain to be distribution clean as it does 
File::Find::find and removes anything not in MANIFEST (with 
some wrinkes like case folding).

>
>To recap the basic issue is that the above pairs are functional equivelents
>to each other, the exception being that the second (redundant) statment will
>run in interactive mode, with all the obvious annoyances that causes.  The
>patch below (and attached) removes these redundancies from the makefile.


No objection to that.

>
>Here it is:
>#PATCH#############################################################
>--- ..\source\win32\makefile   2002-09-04 14:57:09.000000000 +0200
>+++ makefile.new       2002-10-02 14:03:43.000000000 +0200
>@@ -1029,22 +1029,14 @@
>       -del /f $(LIBDIR)\XS\Typemap.pm
>       -del /f $(LIBDIR)\Unicode\Normalize.pm
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\IO rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\IO
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\IO
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\B rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\B
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\B
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Data rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Data
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\Data
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Filter\Util rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Filter\Util
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Digest rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Digest
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\Digest
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\MIME rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\MIME
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\MIME
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\List rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\List
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\List
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Scalar rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Scalar
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\Scalar
>       -if exist $(LIBDIR)\XS rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\XS
>-      -rmdir /s $(LIBDIR)\XS
>       cd $(PODDIR)
>       -del /f *.html *.bat checkpods \
>           perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlapollo.pod perlbeos.pod \
>@@ -1076,9 +1068,7 @@
>       -del /s *.def Makefile Makefile.old
>       cd ..\win32
>       -if exist $(AUTODIR) rmdir /s /q $(AUTODIR)
>-      -rmdir /s $(AUTODIR)
>       -if exist $(COREDIR) rmdir /s /q $(COREDIR)
>-      -rmdir /s $(COREDIR)
> 
> install : all installbare installhtml
> 
>@@ -1155,7 +1145,6 @@
>       -@$(DEL) $(PERLDLL)
>       -@$(DEL) $(CORE_OBJ)
>       -if exist $(MINIDIR) rmdir /s /q $(MINIDIR)
>-      -rmdir /s $(MINIDIR)
>       -@$(DEL) $(WIN32_OBJ)
>       -@$(DEL) $(DLL_OBJ)
>#ENDPATCH##########################################################
>
>> I've no idea how building perl "normally" on win32 works. How many
>different
>> configurations can you choose? (eg things like having  -DDEBUGGING in the
>> C compiler flags, using 64 bit integers, using long doubles, 
>> using (or not using) threads). All the smoke test scripts are trying to do
>
>> for a run is rebuild the same perl source tree with different sets of
>configuration
>> options. I've also no idea of how the smoke is supposed to 
>> work on win32, or which make it was written for.
>
>
>Well, based on the makefile I see 
>
>USE_MULTI
>USE_ITHREADS
>USE_IMP_SYS
>USE_PERLIO
>CFG (for debug)
>PERL_MALLOC
>
>As being possible different options. But im pretty new to this all.
>
>Yves
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

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