On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> What does the rest of the group think? We should update dh-make-perl to > >> do whatever is the best solution here and should probably decide before > >> we start changing more packages than we have already. > > > dh-make-perl already uses rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty for these > > directories, actually. [And giving just a path to these directories > > would be better than getting rid of all empty directories, some of which > > may be purposefully empty.] > > Unfortunately, it'e exactly this that doesn't work, because that > command fails if the directory named doesn't exist. With Perl 5.8's > MakeMaker, it's created. With Perl 5.10's, it isn't, which causes > any package using that command to FTBFS.
Ah; the problems with me not paying close enough attention.... Probably just coupling it with a test statement would be best then, since that's the proper logic in all cases where those directories exist. Don Armstrong -- NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again. -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
