in reply to Re^7: dmake and bash on Win?
in thread let Makefile.PL to do the Readme file for me -- new target?

Are you saying that the literal "rm -rf cover_db" is never executed and just used as comment or message?

Cheers Rolf
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Re^9: dmake and bash on Win?
by pryrt (Abbot) on Jan 21, 2021 at 18:19 UTC
    Are you saying that the literal "rm -rf cover_db" is never executed and just used as comment or message?

    Yes, that is what I am saying.

    When the Makefile runs the command $(ECHO) realclean:: skip "rm -rf cover_db", it effectively prints all the arguments after the $(ECHO) as text to the console/terminal/equivalent. I am just using that as a debug print to tell me that it didn't delete cover_db (probably because it didn't exist).