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| author | Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org> | 2019-06-21 10:12:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org> | 2019-06-21 10:12:33 -0700 |
| commit | 74c5eae8b295e7c9badf10b3d6dcfb84998781fa (patch) | |
| tree | 65f17b31e700a653ea6e4de7f1d403969662ce87 /Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | |
| parent | 9965e4913ae5c95c055633458dda05e8244efd1a (diff) | |
| download | perl-74c5eae8b295e7c9badf10b3d6dcfb84998781fa.tar.gz | |
add explicit command to do a clean build
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| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index 8dda7fe053..0e0c962841 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -1345,7 +1345,14 @@ in theory, only contain bug fixes but never regressions.)) =head3 clean build and test -Run a clean build and test to make sure nothing obvious is broken. +Run a clean build and test to make sure nothing obvious is broken. This is +very important, as commands run after this point must be run using the perl +executable built with the bumped version number. + + $ git clean -xdf + $ ./Configure -des -Dusedevel + $ make + $ make test In particular, F<Porting/perldelta_template.pod> is intentionally exempted from podchecker tests, to avoid false positives about placeholder text. |