From: Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:07:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add MYMETA.yml to perl/.gitignore
Message-ID: <20111203000729.GA19672@thinkpad>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcpymti3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:41:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc> writes:
> 
> > This file is auto-generated by newer versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker
> > (presumably starting with the version shipping with Perl 5.14). It just
> > contains extra information about the environment and arguments to the
> > Makefile-building process, and can be safely deleted.
> 
> "safely deleted" sounds as if you made "make clean" remove it.  I do not
> mind doing s/and can be.*/and should be ignored./ myself, if you want.

You're very welcome to do that.

> Does running "make clean" actually remove it, by the way?

Yes, it does. perl/perl.mak (which, in turn, is generated by MakeMaker
via perl/Makefile) takes care of that file explicitly.