Re: clean.pl on Windows fails to remove flex output

On 2/07/2011 11:54 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 17:51, Craig Ringer<craig@postnewspapers.com.au>  wrote:
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I've noticed while testing the VC 2010 patches that clean.pl in
>> src/tools/msvc doesn't remove files generated by flex. I landed up with a
>> broken configuration while testing my x64 builds that caused the creation of
>> zero-size outputs for bootscanner.c etc. These weren't re-generated on
>> re-build even after a clean, and because they're in .gitignore they aren't
>> flagged as dirty in the tree either. Because an empty file is a valid C
>> compilation unit, everything proceeded merrily until linkage failed.
>>
>> Should clean.pl be removing such files? Or, since they're probably included
>> in release source tarballs, would a separate "gitclean.pl" be required?
>
> clean.pl? I don't even have that file, I only have clean.bat...
>
> And if you're talking about that one, have you tried "clean dist"
> which is what should correspond to make distclean, and remove those
> files?

Gah. Reading the file before posting would've been a good idea - sorry.

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Craig Ringer