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authorTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2014-10-07 10:33:58 +1100
committerTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2014-11-05 11:32:18 +1100
commitdd8235d9b0522b2a3b71bb7b2b312dccb50cbb36 (patch)
tree82e49204b8902628a685aa28d846ae30b0915726 /INSTALL
parent3415f8b9fb121a138ed954f9ced0b2c1f4660e48 (diff)
downloadperl-dd8235d9b0522b2a3b71bb7b2b312dccb50cbb36.tar.gz
change 'make clean' to be equivalent to 'make realclean'
'make clean' hasn't been useful since at least 1997, change it to something that is useful, 'make realclean'
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@@ -2363,9 +2363,8 @@ or
make realclean
The only difference between the two is that make distclean also removes
-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.)
+your old config.sh and Policy.sh files. (A plain 'make clean' is now
+eqivalent to 'make realclean'.)
If you are upgrading from a previous version of perl, or if you
change systems or compilers or make other significant changes, or if