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git/perl
Philip Oakley 18105f855a perl/Makefile: treat a missing PM.stamp as if empty
'make clean', or a 'git clean -dfx' will delete the PM stamp file,
so it cannot be a direct target in such clean conditions, resulting
in an error.

Normally the PM.stamp is recreated by the git/Makefile, except when
a dry-run is requested, for example, as used in the msysgit msvc-build
script which implements the compat/vcbuild/README using
contrib/buildsystems. The script msvc-build is introduced later in this
series.

Protect the PM.stamp target when the PM.stamp file does not exist,
allowing a Git 'Makefile -n' to succeed on a clean repo.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
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This is development of the original "[PATCH 4/17] Makefile: a dry-run
can error out if no perl. Document the issue" 2015-06-25,
(http://marc.info/?l=git&m=143519054716960&w=2), which simply documented
the issue and then used NO_PERL to avoid the problem. See follow on
email thread for some discussion.
2018-02-16 22:06:28 +01:00
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