in reply to MakeMaker/Module::Build force make install

Can you "make uninstall" before "make install"? The only caveat here is that I'm not sure that make uninstall is completely clean. That should be ok if you're just about to reinstall anyway.

Another choice is simply to touch all your source.

I'm also thinking there is a make option ("man make") to ignore timestamps and rebuild all. I just don't remember it.

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Re^2: MakeMaker/Module::Build force make install
by saintmike (Vicar) on Mar 10, 2005 at 20:54 UTC
    Hmm ... there doesn't seem to be an uninstall target with Makefiles created by Module::Build: 

    make uninstall
make: don't know how to make uninstall. Stop

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    ExtUtils::MakeMaker, on the other hand, supports uninstall.

    Oh, and touching the source doesn't trick make install into installing unchanged targets either:

    Skipping /foo/bar/baz/Module.pm (unchanged)

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    Turns out that ExtUtils::Install checks the size and then calls compare of File::Compare which compares the content: 
    if ( -f $targetfile && -s _ == $size) {
    # We have a good chance, we can skip this one
    $diff = compare($sourcefile, $targetfile);
}

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      ExtUtils::MakeMaker, on the other hand, supports uninstall
      But doesn't actually remove the files (at least on win32, this might be platform dependent behavior).

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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      As for the comparing - this is what I call "the computer being too smart." It gets in the way of advanced users who know what they're doing. You may need to add your own target to your makefile which does what you want - largely defeating the entire purpose of a generalised Makefile maker.

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