1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
6 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
7 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
9 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
11 - No changes from 0.25_01
13 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
15 - Changed test library to Test::More
17 - Added tests for have_compiler
19 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
21 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
22 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
24 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
26 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
28 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
30 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
33 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
34 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
37 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
38 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
40 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
42 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
44 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
46 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
47 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
50 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
52 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
53 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
55 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
56 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
58 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
60 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
61 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
62 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
63 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
65 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
68 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
70 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
71 as part of the perl core.
73 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
74 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
76 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
77 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
80 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
82 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
83 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
84 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
86 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
87 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
89 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
92 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
93 + Got library-file building working better
94 + Handled libperl_overrides better
97 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
98 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
100 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
101 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
103 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
104 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
105 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
106 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
108 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
110 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
113 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
115 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
116 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
117 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
120 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
123 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
125 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
128 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
129 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
132 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
133 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
136 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
138 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
139 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
140 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
141 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
144 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
145 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
147 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
148 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
149 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
151 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
153 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
154 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
155 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
156 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
157 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
160 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
162 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
163 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
164 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
166 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
168 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
169 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
170 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
171 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
172 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
173 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
174 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
176 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
177 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
178 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
181 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
182 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
183 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
185 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
186 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
189 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
191 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
194 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
196 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
197 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
198 where they're very different.
200 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
203 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
205 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
206 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
207 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
208 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
211 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
213 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
214 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
216 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
218 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
219 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
220 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
221 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
223 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
224 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
225 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
226 and so on. [Randy Sims]
228 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
229 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
230 compile(). [Randy Sims]
232 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
234 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
235 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
236 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
238 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
240 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
241 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
242 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
244 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
246 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
248 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
249 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
250 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
253 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
255 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
258 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
261 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
263 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
264 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
266 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
267 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
268 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
271 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
273 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
274 patching help from Randy Sims.