Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add MYMETA.yml to perl/.gitignore

From: Sebastian Morr <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 01:07:30 +0100

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:41:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sebastian Morr <[email-masked]> 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.