1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.280208 - 2012-06-20 (Perl v5.17.1)
7 - Corrected location in which manifest file is looked for on
8 Windows (RT#35943, perl #111798) [snaury@gmail.com]
10 0.280207 (Not released)
14 - Corrected test for existence of manifest file on Windows
15 (perl #111782) [Steve Hay]
17 0.280206 - 2012-03-20 (Perl v5.15.9)
21 - Added a SUPPORT section to indicate that upstream is Perl 5 core
23 0.280205 - 2011-12-20 (Perl v5.15.6)
27 - Fixed bug picking up ccflags from Config
29 0.280204 - 2011-06-20 (Perl v5.15.0)
33 - Quotation style cleanup
35 0.280203 - 2011-05-14 (Perl v5.14.0)
39 - Appends CFLAGS and LDFLAGS environments instead of overriding
41 - Reset ccflags on compilation for VMS.
45 - Refactored OS name mapping to use Perl::OSType
47 0.280202 - Sun Jan 23 10:47:51 EST 2011
49 - Different file names used for test files; allows EU::CB tests
50 to be run in parallel. [Florian Ragwitz]
52 0.280201 - Fri Jan 21 15:16:36 EST 2011
56 - t/04-base.t no longer attempt to compile or link as this provokes
57 failures on main platforms
59 - Various typo fixes in Pod or comments
61 0.2802 - Sun Dec 12 07:22:43 EST 2010
65 - Incorporated another t/04-base.t fix from bleadperl
68 0.2801 - Wed Dec 8 21:36:56 EST 2010
72 - Fixed spurious t/04-base.t failure when run from Perl core
75 0.2800 - Mon Dec 6 16:05:46 EST 2010
77 - No changes from 0.27_07
79 0.27_07 - Wed Sep 29 21:48:55 EDT 2010
83 - Fixed t/02-link.t on perl < 5.8
85 0.27_06 - Mon Sep 27 15:29:54 EDT 2010
89 - Preserves exit status on VMS [Craig Berry]
91 - Fix Win32 split_like_shell escaping [Christian Walde]
93 0.27_05 - Wed Jul 28 15:29:59 EDT 2010
97 - Tests no longer fail if user has set the CC environment variable
99 0.27_04 - Mon Jul 26 22:41:43 EDT 2010
102 - handle c compiler and c++ compiler separately
103 (adds requirement for IPC::Cmd) [Jens Rehsack]
106 - rely on File::Temp::tempfile and File::Spec::tmpdir to
107 get unique file name for checking for compiler
110 - Code base modernization and substantial code coverage improvments
113 0.2703 - Tue Mar 16 17:10:55 EDT 2010
116 - fixed tests for Windows and MSVC [Jan Dubois]
118 0.2702 - Mon Feb 22 15:10:52 EST 2010
121 - compile() changes in 0.2701 did not work on Windows. Now fixed.
123 0.2701 - Tue Feb 16 09:12:45 EST 2010
126 - compile() now accepts both string & array for 'include_dirs'
127 argument, as documented.(RT#54606) [Alberto Simões]
129 0.27 - Thu Oct 29 21:29:56 EDT 2009
132 - Removed Build.PL to avoid creating a circular dependency
133 - Added version numbers to Windows compiler driver modules
135 0.26_05 - Sun Oct 25 17:29:02 EDT 2009
138 - Fixed t/02link.t failures on cygwin with Perl 5.8 [David Golden]
141 - Made have_compiler (and have_cplusplus) quiet without echoing
142 the test command to STDOUT [David Golden]
144 0.26_04 - Mon Oct 19 21:57:46 EDT 2009
147 - Added 'have_cplusplus()' method to check for C++ support
148 - Added patches for building Perl with mingw64 [Sisyphus]
149 - Allow CC environment variable to override $Config{cc}
152 - Fixed link executable command for Win32 MSVC (RT#40819) [Cosimo
154 - Removed MSVC version check when embedding a manifest file
155 (RT #43002) [Steve Hay]
158 - Split Windows compiler driver packages into individual *.pm files
160 0.260301 - Sat Aug 29 11:04:41 EDT 2009
163 - Fixed linking error on Win32 with gcc compiler (RT#49000)
166 0.2603 - Sat Jul 18 06:56:06 EDT 2009
169 - Makefile.PL had wrong INSTALLDIRS setting for older Perls
170 (RT#47985) [David Golden]
172 0.2602 - Sat Jul 4 10:57:12 EDT 2009
175 - Fixed 00-have-compiler.t if $^X is a relative path [David Wheeler]
177 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
180 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
181 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
183 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
185 - No changes from 0.25_01
187 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
189 - Changed test library to Test::More
191 - Added tests for have_compiler
193 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
195 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
196 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
198 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
200 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
202 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
204 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
207 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
208 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
211 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
212 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
214 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
216 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
218 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
220 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
221 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
224 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
226 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
227 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
229 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
230 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
232 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
234 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
235 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
236 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
237 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
239 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
240 ignored. [Robert May]
242 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
244 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
245 as part of the perl core.
247 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
248 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
250 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
251 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
254 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
256 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
257 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
258 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
260 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
261 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
263 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
265 - Various OS/2 fixes:
266 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
267 + Got library-file building working better
268 + Handled libperl_overrides better
271 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
272 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
274 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
275 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
277 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
278 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
279 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
280 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
282 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
284 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
287 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
289 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
290 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
291 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
294 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
297 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
299 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
302 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
303 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
306 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
307 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
310 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
312 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
313 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
314 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
315 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
318 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
319 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
321 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
322 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
323 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
325 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
327 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
328 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
329 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
330 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
331 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
334 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
336 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
337 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
338 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
340 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
342 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
343 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
344 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
345 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
346 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
347 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
348 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
350 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
351 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
352 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
355 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
356 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
357 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
359 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
360 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
363 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
365 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
368 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
370 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
371 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
372 where they're very different.
374 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
377 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
379 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
380 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
381 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
382 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
385 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
387 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
388 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
390 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
392 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
393 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
394 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
395 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
397 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
398 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
399 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
400 and so on. [Randy Sims]
402 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
403 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
404 compile(). [Randy Sims]
406 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
408 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
409 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
410 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
412 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
414 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
415 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
416 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
418 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
420 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
422 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
423 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
424 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
427 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
429 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
432 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
435 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
437 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
438 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
440 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
441 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
442 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
445 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
447 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
448 patching help from Randy Sims.