Stas Bekman wrote in perl.makemaker :
> http://makemaker.org/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-snap/Changes:
> 6.18 Mon Nov 3 20:09:51 PST 2003
> [...]
> * Eliminated .exists files. Added blibdirs target using MKPATH instead.
>
> blead perl delivers VERSION = '6.21_02' of EU-MM and I get a load of
> foo.exists targets in the modperl-2.0 tree. Why do I get them if they were
> eliminated in an earlier version?
You're getting those because of :
Change 22476 on 2004/03/09 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH] bleadperl/MM/VMS (was Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:18:43 -0600
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Avoid to build everything twice on VMS.
This is done by renaming the blibdirs target to blibdirs.exists.
No, I don't understand why.
> I want to know whether I should cvsignore them or is it just a temp glitch.
See the last line of my commit log message :)