Re: .exists targets in blead perl

Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> 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 rgs@rgs-home
>
>         Subject: [PATCH] bleadperl/MM/VMS (was Re: perl@22413)
>         From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@xxxxxxx>
>         Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:18:43 -0600
>         Message-ID: <404C80C3.6090009@xxxxxxx>
>         
>         Avoid to build everything twice on VMS.
>         This is done by renaming the blibdirs target to blibdirs.exists.
>         No, I don't understand why.
Thanks Rafael!

> > 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 :)
You mean:

     No, I don't understand why.

???

Shouldn't this be logged in Changes? or are you waiting for Michael to resolve 
the 'don't understand' part?
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