1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.280206 - 2012-03-20 (Perl v5.15.9)
7 - Added a SUPPORT section to indicate that upstream is Perl 5 core
9 0.280205 - 2011-12-20 (Perl v5.15.6)
13 - Fixed bug picking up ccflags from Config
15 0.280204 - 2011-06-20 (Perl v5.15.0)
19 - Quotation style cleanup
21 0.280203 - 2011-05-14 (Perl v5.14.0)
25 - Appends CFLAGS and LDFLAGS environments instead of overriding
27 - Reset ccflags on compilation for VMS.
31 - Refactored OS name mapping to use Perl::OSType
33 0.280202 - Sun Jan 23 10:47:51 EST 2011
35 - Different file names used for test files; allows EU::CB tests
36 to be run in parallel. [Florian Ragwitz]
38 0.280201 - Fri Jan 21 15:16:36 EST 2011
42 - t/04-base.t no longer attempt to compile or link as this provokes
43 failures on main platforms
45 - Various typo fixes in Pod or comments
47 0.2802 - Sun Dec 12 07:22:43 EST 2010
51 - Incorporated another t/04-base.t fix from bleadperl
54 0.2801 - Wed Dec 8 21:36:56 EST 2010
58 - Fixed spurious t/04-base.t failure when run from Perl core
61 0.2800 - Mon Dec 6 16:05:46 EST 2010
63 - No changes from 0.27_07
65 0.27_07 - Wed Sep 29 21:48:55 EDT 2010
69 - Fixed t/02-link.t on perl < 5.8
71 0.27_06 - Mon Sep 27 15:29:54 EDT 2010
75 - Preserves exit status on VMS [Craig Berry]
77 - Fix Win32 split_like_shell escaping [Christian Walde]
79 0.27_05 - Wed Jul 28 15:29:59 EDT 2010
83 - Tests no longer fail if user has set the CC environment variable
85 0.27_04 - Mon Jul 26 22:41:43 EDT 2010
88 - handle c compiler and c++ compiler separately
89 (adds requirement for IPC::Cmd) [Jens Rehsack]
92 - rely on File::Temp::tempfile and File::Spec::tmpdir to
93 get unique file name for checking for compiler
96 - Code base modernization and substantial code coverage improvments
99 0.2703 - Tue Mar 16 17:10:55 EDT 2010
102 - fixed tests for Windows and MSVC [Jan Dubois]
104 0.2702 - Mon Feb 22 15:10:52 EST 2010
107 - compile() changes in 0.2701 did not work on Windows. Now fixed.
109 0.2701 - Tue Feb 16 09:12:45 EST 2010
112 - compile() now accepts both string & array for 'include_dirs'
113 argument, as documented.(RT#54606) [Alberto Simões]
115 0.27 - Thu Oct 29 21:29:56 EDT 2009
118 - Removed Build.PL to avoid creating a circular dependency
119 - Added version numbers to Windows compiler driver modules
121 0.26_05 - Sun Oct 25 17:29:02 EDT 2009
124 - Fixed t/02link.t failures on cygwin with Perl 5.8 [David Golden]
127 - Made have_compiler (and have_cplusplus) quiet without echoing
128 the test command to STDOUT [David Golden]
130 0.26_04 - Mon Oct 19 21:57:46 EDT 2009
133 - Added 'have_cplusplus()' method to check for C++ support
134 - Added patches for building Perl with mingw64 [Sisyphus]
135 - Allow CC environment variable to override $Config{cc}
138 - Fixed link executable command for Win32 MSVC (RT#40819) [Cosimo
140 - Removed MSVC version check when embedding a manifest file
141 (RT #43002) [Steve Hay]
144 - Split Windows compiler driver packages into individual *.pm files
146 0.260301 - Sat Aug 29 11:04:41 EDT 2009
149 - Fixed linking error on Win32 with gcc compiler (RT#49000)
152 0.2603 - Sat Jul 18 06:56:06 EDT 2009
155 - Makefile.PL had wrong INSTALLDIRS setting for older Perls
156 (RT#47985) [David Golden]
158 0.2602 - Sat Jul 4 10:57:12 EDT 2009
161 - Fixed 00-have-compiler.t if $^X is a relative path [David Wheeler]
163 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
166 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
167 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
169 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
171 - No changes from 0.25_01
173 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
175 - Changed test library to Test::More
177 - Added tests for have_compiler
179 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
181 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
182 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
184 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
186 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
188 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
190 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
193 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
194 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
197 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
198 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
200 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
202 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
204 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
206 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
207 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
210 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
212 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
213 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
215 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
216 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
218 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
220 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
221 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
222 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
223 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
225 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
226 ignored. [Robert May]
228 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
230 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
231 as part of the perl core.
233 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
234 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
236 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
237 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
240 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
242 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
243 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
244 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
246 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
247 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
249 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
251 - Various OS/2 fixes:
252 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
253 + Got library-file building working better
254 + Handled libperl_overrides better
257 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
258 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
260 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
261 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
263 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
264 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
265 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
266 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
268 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
270 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
273 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
275 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
276 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
277 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
280 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
283 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
285 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
288 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
289 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
292 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
293 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
296 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
298 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
299 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
300 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
301 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
304 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
305 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
307 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
308 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
309 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
311 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
313 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
314 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
315 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
316 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
317 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
320 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
322 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
323 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
324 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
326 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
328 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
329 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
330 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
331 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
332 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
333 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
334 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
336 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
337 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
338 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
341 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
342 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
343 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
345 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
346 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
349 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
351 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
354 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
356 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
357 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
358 where they're very different.
360 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
363 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
365 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
366 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
367 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
368 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
371 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
373 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
374 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
376 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
378 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
379 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
380 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
381 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
383 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
384 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
385 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
386 and so on. [Randy Sims]
388 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
389 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
390 compile(). [Randy Sims]
392 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
394 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
395 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
396 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
398 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
400 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
401 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
402 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
404 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
406 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
408 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
409 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
410 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
413 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
415 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
418 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
421 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
423 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
424 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
426 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
427 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
428 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
431 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
433 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
434 patching help from Randy Sims.