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

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 17:51, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)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?

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