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diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/Changes b/lib/ExtUtils/Changes index 39bd0c8555..879f55dc9e 100644 --- a/lib/ExtUtils/Changes +++ b/lib/ExtUtils/Changes @@ -1,3 +1,263 @@ +6.06_05 + - Syncing into bleadperl. Minor nits revealed... + - AutoSplit open filehandle bug was fixed in bleadperl. Averted a + warning because of this. + - hint files were only being loaded if . happened to be in @INC. + A bug/feature of File::Spec was stripping off the current dir from + the front of hintfile paths causing Perl to look for them in @INC. + Worked around. + - Now checking $! for errors if a hint file returns undef + - compile test was testing all of perl! Scaling back to just ExtUtils/ + +6.06_04 Sun Mar 30 20:34:39 PST 2003 + - Now looking for ExtUtils::xsubpp through @INC rather than just + the perl core directories. This helps ExtUtils::ParseXS. + - Systems which don't put their libraries under their $Config{prefix} + (OS X, Debian) weren't putting their libraries in the spot declared + in Config. It was going under $Config{prefix}. + - Prerequisites check now deals better with X.Y_Z style alpha versions + - ExtUtils::Liblist->ext() was using $Config{perllibs} which is a 5.6.1 + thing. Falling back to $Config{libs} if perllibs isn't there. + - ExtUtils::Command::MM now reads from @ARGV if called with no + args. Makes the one liner a bit simpler. + * Restored ExtUtils::Liblist::ext() for backwards compatibility. + Missing since 5.6.1. + - Switching to relative dirs for self-building to shorten + command line lengths. + - Fixing minor test warning on VMS when compiling ExtUtils::Manifest + - Skipping STDIN read prompt() tests on 5.5.3. Can't test due to + eof() not honor tied handles. + - Config.pm on 5.5.3 doesn't have any concept of vendor*. This was + causing warnings when generating the Makefile. + +6.06_03 Sat Mar 29 19:44:53 PST 2003 + - Added AUTHOR and ABSTRACT_FROM info for ppd generation. + - Added echo() method to portably echo text to a file. + - Worked around 5.8.0 eval 'require Foo::Bar' bug causing MakeMaker + to think modules weren't installed. + - Modernized VMS doc_*_install targets + - Changed some $(PERL) -e "print ..." code to use $(ECHO). + - Replaced uses of Delete/NoLog/NoConfirm with $(RM_F) in MM_VMS + - Fixed some duplicate macros making MMS happy. + - Fixed $ExtUtils::MM_VMS::Revision. It was just the $VERSION before. + - Fixed ExtUtils::Command::MM::perllocal_install(), uninstall(), + warn_if_old_packlist(). + * Pulling File::Spec::VMS::fixpath() and eliminate_macros() into MM_VMS + as the new cannonical location. They never should have been in F::S + in the first place. + * ExtUtils::Command::eqtime() would truncate the file being equalized! + Holdover from exclusive .exists usage. + - Cleaned up hard coded 'echo' and '@' to $(ECHO) and $(NOECHO) + - $(SAY) is now $(ECHO) on VMS + - Moved rogue initializations from tools_other() to init_others() + - Normalized MM_VMS's tools_other() to mostly use its superclass. + - split_command() was off-by-one when calculating max command line + lengths causing it to run over on VMS + - made split_command() a bit smarter, taking into account some macro + expansion + - Fixed initialization of OBJECT, DISTNAME and LDFROM on VMS + - Fixed *_install target uses of File::Spec. + - Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish wrapper around vmsish so MM_VMS + can be compiled on non-VMS machines. For testing. + * Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial about writing modules with + MakeMaker. + - Removed "always use h2xs" dogma. + - Added compile & POD test + * 'make distdir' now generates META.yml module meta-data file. + Proof of concept. Have to syncronize with Module::Build. + * Added maniadd() to ExtUtils::Manifest to add entries to the MANIFEST + * ExtUtils::Command::chmod was not interpreting file permissions as + octal. Also, docs & tests slightly wrong (thanks Stas Bekman). + - ExtUtils::Install was hard coding blib/lib and blib/arch, unportable + [perl #21526] + +6.06_02 Mon Dec 23 20:39:57 PST 2002 + * Lots of Win32 fixes busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01. + * split_command() tests still not happy on Win32. Problems with + shell vs Makefile escaping makes testing difficult. + * VMS still broken. Need to convert File::Spec method calls back to + object method calls so the weird FS::VMS->eliminate_macros() and + fixpath() work again. + +6.06_01 Thu Dec 19 00:14:49 PST 2002 + - Andreas found that when building the core it is desirable for + MakeMaker to use a relative path to perl. + - File::Spec->catfile() has a bug where the resulting file may not be + canonicalized. This was causing problems when generating manpaths. + MakeMaker now uses its own fixed override for catfile(). + - Fixed the POD recognition regex to properly catch /=head\d/ tags. + * Added a PATCHING guideline document. + - Updated the class hierarchy in NOTES. + - Installed.t now cleans up after itself better. + - Steve Purkis rewrote the manifypods system to use Pod::Man + rather than pod2man. Its now portable and manifypods() moved from + MM_Unix to MM_Any. As a result, lots of icky and redudant code went + away. This also removes the POD2MAN macro, but noone should be + using that. + - "make manifypods" now works on Win32 + - "make manifypods" is now be faster + - Made MM_Unix->find_perl more portable. Eliminated MM_Win32->find_perl + override. MM_VMS->find_perl remains. + * find_perl() can now handle filenames with spaces in them (RT448) + * find_perl() on Win32 no longer produces spurious "File Creation error" + messages (perlbug ID 20020709.001) + - Removed unfinished and unused maybe_command_in_dirs() + - Removed dead SelfLoader cruft from MM_Unix. + - Fixed PPD generation when the ppd contains quotes (RT1473) + - Fixed PPD generation on VMS + - Moved Win9x specific subdir_x() code from MM_Unix to MM_Win95 + * Craig Berry fixed hint files on VMS + - Added the perl_onliner() method to generate portable, safe one-liners + - Changing hardcoded $self->{MAKEFILE} to $(FIRST_MAKEFILE). + * Rafael Garcia-Suarez made MakeMaker ignore Subversion control files + by default. + - Added MAKEFILE_OLD macro. + * No longer generating man pages by default on VMS. + - Improved DISTNAME docs + * Documented DISTVNAME and VERSION_SYM + * Documented dist() + - Seperated dist_core() into dist, tardist, uutardist, tarfile, + zipdist, zipfile and shdist_target methods. Allows elimination + of redundant code in MM_VMS. + - Replaced WARN_IF_OLD_PACKLIST, DOC_INSTALL and UNINSTALL + one-liners with ExtUtils::Command::MM functions + - Replaced VMS hand-rolled perl code for TOUCH, CHMOD, RM_F and RM_RF + with ExtUtils::Command functions. Added TEST_F. + - Adding clean_subdirs target and clean_subdirs_target() method to + generate same. This allows easier overriding of an unportable part + of the clean target. + - Defined DEV_NULL for MacOS + - Removed ROOTEXT from MM_MacOS, apparently unused + - Added $(DIRFILESEP) macro and init_DIRFILESEP to avoid + hardcoding / or \. Reduces code duplication in the MM_* modules. + - Added init_platform() and platform_constants() for OS specific + macros. Moved OS specific macros from constants() overrides there. + - Added init_VERSION() to setup various *VERSION* macros. + - Added default wraplist() to make porting easier. + - Added makemakerdflt_target() to guarantee 'all' is the default + target. + - Added special_targets() to handle things like .PHONY and make sure + they come first. + - Added init_linker() to initialize linker relatied macros. + - MM_MacOS constants() disolves + Moved MACPERL_SRC, MACPERL_LIB, MACPERL_INC from init_main() to + init_platform(). + Moved DEFINE and INC tweaking from constants() to init_main() + Moved DEFINE_VERSION & XS_DEFINE_VERSION from constants() to + init_VERSION(). + Eliminated MODULES. Unused and its the same as TO_INST_PM + Moved .INCLUDE from constants() to special_targets() + + - MM_NW5 constants() & init_others() disolves + Moved LIBPTH, BASE_IMPORT, NLM_VERSION, MPKTOOL, TOOLPATH from + init_others() to init_platform() + Moved INCLUDE and PATH definitions from constants() to + init_platform() + Moved BOOT_SYMBOL, NLM_SHORT_NAME, PATH and INCLUDE from + constants() to init_platform() + + - MM_Unix constants() goes on a diet + Moved all macro definitions to init_* methods. + Added MM_REVISION for completeness + Using wraplist() instead of manual joining + Moved .NO_CONFIG_REC, .SUFFIXES and .PHONY to special_targets() + Moved makemakerdflt: to makemakerdeflt_target() + Moved INST_{STATIC,DYNAMIC,BOOT} to init_INST() + Moved EXPORT_LIST, PERL_ARCHIVE & PERL_ARCHIVE_AFTER to init_linker(). + Moved PERL_MALLOC_DEF to init_platform() + + - MM_VMS constants() goes on a diet + Moved DEFINE from constants() to init_main() + Moved OBJECT & LDFROM from constants() to init_others() + Moved MM_VMS_REVISION and PERL_VMS to init_platform + Added MM_VMS_VERSION + Moved DEFINE_VERSION, XS_DEFINE_VERSION and MAKEMAKER changes to + init_VERSION + Moved .SUFFIXES changes to special_targets() override. + Eliminated $self->{PM_TO_BLIB}. Its redundant with $self->{PM}. + constants() now consists only of fixpath() calls. + + - MM_Win32 constants() goes away + Moved .USESHELL to special_targets() override. + Everything else was redundant. + + - Added $(VERSION_FROM) to $(MAKEFILE) dependencies. Helpful for + XS builds where the version number is very sensitive. + - export_list(), perl_archive() and perl_archive_after() consolodated + into init_linker(). + - Added MM_NW5_VERSION, MM_Unix_VERSION, MM_Win32_VERSION, + MM_VMS_VERSION. + - Eliminated duplicate code in constants() overrides + - Added all_target() for easier customization of what's run by default + - Eliminated duplicate top_targets() overrides + - Made tool_autosplit() method portable. Moved to MM_Any. Eliminated + overrides. + - Adding realclean_subdirs target and realclean_subdirs_target() + method to generate same. This allows easier overriding of an + unportable part of the realclean target. + - Added oneliner() to create portable perl one-liners. + - Craig Berry found some typos in ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid's VMS part + * ExtUtils::Install did not work on MacPerl due to a hardcoded '.' + * prompt() will now read from STDIN. + - Craig Berry made sure extliblist() is always called even if LIBS + is explicitly set to empty. + * Added DESTDIR to make repacking easier. + * $(*PREFIX) are returned to the INSTALL* variables. + * Split $(PREFIX) into $(PERLPREFIX) and $(PREFIX). The former + holds the location of the core libraries. The latter is the + optional override prefix supplied by the user. + * PREFIX overrides all other *PREFIXes when set in the Makefile.PL. + This restores "make install PREFIX=foo". + - Added quote_literal() to handle some shell quoting. + - ExtUtils::MM_VMS now compilable on non-VMS platforms. + - J. D. Laub made MakeMaker honor $Config{installstyle} + - Renaming on OS/2 requires the target file to be removed. + Partially fixed by Ilya, should be applied universally later. + - Default MANIFEST.SKIP not catching files in subdirs. Fixed by Ilya. + - Ilya fixed ExtUtils::Liblist->ext when called outside MakeMaker. + - realclean was duplicating work already done by clean + - Adding an explicit LICENSE + - Cleaning up ExtUtils::Install docs. + - ExtUtils::Install::uninstall() now has default verbose and + dont_execute arguments. + - Added some basic ExtUtils::Install tests + - Fixed ExtUtils::Install::install() for relative dirs + - Added split_command() and max_exec_len() to deal with long + commands. + - Seperated escape_newlines() from quote_literal(). This may + be pointless. + - pm_to_blib() now generated with split_command(). 3x speedup. + - added init_dist() to initialize distribution constants + - ExtUtils::Install::pm_to_blib() working around open filehandle + bug in AutoSplit for systems with mandatory file locking. + +6.05 Tue Aug 27 16:09:51 PDT 2002 + - Output format of the hint file verbose diagnostic is now in + a format native to the OS, so it broke a test on non-Unixen. + +6.04 Mon Aug 26 18:31:11 PDT 2002 + - Little fix for pre-5.8 Cygwin test to get the shared library names + right. + * disttest on Win9X broken because of forgotten tabs + * WriteMakefile argument verification should now be accurate + - Documented the LD flag. + * Documented prompt() + * vendor install was not adding to packlist or updating perllocal. + - Supporting $Config{vendorarchexp} and $Config{vendorlibexp}. + - Fixed conflict on VMS between logical names and directories + (bleadperl 17488) + - Fixed space-vs-tab bug on Netware (bleadperl 17579) + - Mysterious NetWare fix from Ananth (bleadperl 17376) + - Support OPTIMIZE in MacOS (bleadperl 17347) + - Support hints in MacOS (mutation of bleadperl 17347) + * Default man installation directories were using $(MAN*EXT) to + generate the directory name. This turned out to be wrong more + often than right, so we'll use man1 and man3 hard-coded. + - Debian folks fixed the doc_install targets so the Appending + diagnostic gives the correct directory for perllocal.pod + * Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ + - Quieted some warnings on MacOS (bleadperl 17669) + 6.03 Wed Jun 19 17:06:14 EDT 2002 - Documented that we're clamping down on cargo-cult MakeMaker programming. @@ -289,7 +549,7 @@ 5.50_01 Mon Mar 4 23:44:48 EST 2002 [[ API Changes ]] - htmlifypods and all HTML targets have been removed. It didn't + - htmlifypods and all HTML targets have been removed. It didn't work properly. A target for HTMLifying of docs will be added sometime in the future (read: send a patch). - Deprecated ROOTEXT variable removed (its been deprecated for |