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-Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
-between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
-list of each modification.  If you'd like more detailed information,
-please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
-release of Perl is based.  (Patches can be found on any CPAN
-site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
-or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
-releases.)
+Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
+changes that went into every version of Perl.  If you'd like more
+detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
+patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list.  Patches for each
+individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
+perlhack.pod for the details.
 
 
                           ---------------
@@ -95,6 +93,1343 @@ Version v5.6.0
 --------------
 
 ____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5899] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:39:11
+        Log: update patchlevel.h, Changes; regen perltoc.pod
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5898] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/23  05:36:47
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> README.machten Todo Todo-5.6 pod/perldebug.pod
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlport.pod sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5897] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:31:12
+        Log: revise perldelta for more optimal ordering, minor Todo
+             rearrangments
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.machten Todo Todo-5.6 pod/perldelta.pod
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5896] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:30:15
+        Log: pod updates (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5895] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  02:33:33
+        Log: fix misplaced OP refcount for eval root
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5894] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  21:37:03
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> README.machten
+         !> MAINTAIN MANIFEST README.win32 ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+         !> ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm hints/machten.sh pod/perl.pod
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsyn.pod t/io/fs.t win32/Makefile
+         !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5893] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  21:08:34
+        Log: unretract change#5871 (Dominic Dunlop reports machten is better
+             with it than without)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/machten.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5892] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  20:37:44
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/machten.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+         !> hints/unicosmk.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5891] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  20:04:01
+        Log: perlsyn.pod nit (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5890] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:43:22
+        Log: typo in comment
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5889] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:41:46
+        Log: add README.machten (from Dominic Dunlop)
+     Branch: perl
+          + README.machten
+          ! MAINTAIN MANIFEST pod/perl.pod win32/Makefile
+          ! win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5888] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:29:47
+        Log: makefile nits
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5887] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:26:03
+        Log: add note about lib/open3.t#22 failure on Win2K
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32 pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5886] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:14:20
+        Log: io/fs.t tweaks for Windows 2000
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/io/fs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5885] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  18:41:50
+        Log: make unloading of extension shared objects (change#5381) a build
+             option (use "Configure -Accflags=-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT" to enable)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5884] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  18:16:45
+        Log: avoid loading both XSLoader and DynaLoader (avoids dl_error()
+             redefinition warnings when statically linked)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5883] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  17:45:01
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> t/lib/thr5005.t t/op/64bitint.t t/op/nothr5005.t
+          - t/lib/thread.t t/op/64bit.t t/op/nothread.t
+         !> Configure MAINTAIN MANIFEST Todo-5.6 ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+         !> lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perldelta.pod universal.c util.c
+         !> utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL win32/Makefile
+         !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5882] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  17:16:27
+        Log: Metaconfigify #5881.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/installdirs/inc_version_list.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5881] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  17:04:01
+        Log: avoid including things that aren't directories in inc_version_list
+             (from Robin Barker)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5880] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  16:55:42
+        Log: avoid File::Compare warning when passed handles (from Nick
+             Ing-Simmons)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Compare.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5879] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  16:48:33
+        Log: Retract #5871.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/machten.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5878] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  16:29:37
+        Log: RM600-svr4 tweaks (from Frank Ridderbusch
+             <frank.ridderbusch@pdb.siemens.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5877] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  15:38:49
+        Log: save RE context when calling __WARN__ and __DIE__ hooks;
+             add missing stack-of-stacks logic for new code that came
+             in with lexical warnings (this fixes coredumps from
+             -Mdiagnostics when the warnings happens to come from within
+             the RE engine)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5876] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  15:02:59
+        Log: missing pieces in perldelta
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5875] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:46:24
+        Log: rename tests to more appropriate names
+     Branch: perl
+         +> t/lib/thr5005.t t/op/64bitint.t t/op/nothr5005.t
+          - t/lib/thread.t t/op/64bit.t t/op/nothread.t
+          ! MAINTAIN MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5874] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  14:32:57
+        Log: Make the no-luck-on-uselongdouble warning more visible.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5873] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:28:56
+        Log: backout change#5708; fixups for behavior of recently added -a switch;
+             support -k and -m switches in h2xs (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5872] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:21:20
+        Log: remove outdated notes in makefiles
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5871] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  14:17:40
+        Log: Disable SysV shm and msg even more.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/machten.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5870] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  14:16:54
+        Log: Augment #5865.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/unicosmk.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5869] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:07:27
+        Log: perlbug -ok shouldn't prompt (from Paul Moore
+             <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5868] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  13:54:27
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH hints/dec_osf.sh hints/openbsd.sh
+         !> hints/solaris_2.sh hints/unicosmk.sh pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> pod/perlport.pod win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+         !> win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5867] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  05:25:40
+        Log: OpenBSD pthreadness fixes from Tom Christiansen.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/openbsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5866] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  04:18:39
+        Log: UMRs in universal.c (SvCUR() may not be there unless SvPOK())
+     Branch: perl
+          ! universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5865] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  21:38:20
+        Log: The SysV shm*() are in libc but unimplemented.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/unicosmk.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5864] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  21:30:02
+        Log: s/setgropus/setgroups/; # detypo in a comment
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Getfile.U U/modified/d_flexfnam.U
+          ! U/modified/groupstype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5863] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  20:25:40
+        Log: Add supported platforms.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5862] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  19:19:04
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5861] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  19:07:13
+        Log: add missing bincompat symbols to export list
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5860] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  18:59:39
+        Log: Disallow using too old gcc in {Tru64,Digital UNIX,DEC OSF/1}.
+             (Even gcc 2.95 doesn't seem to be working 100%.)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/dec_osf.sh pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5859] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  16:36:27
+        Log: Nit for #5802 from Robin Barker.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Getfile.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5858] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  14:34:25
+        Log: Be more lenient in the case libsunmath cannot be found.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5857] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  14:14:38
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 27 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5856] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  10:44:10
+        Log: here lies RC3
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5855] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  10:05:42
+        Log: clone awareness for change#5847
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5854] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  09:30:50
+        Log: regen win32/config*
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5853] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  08:56:58
+        Log: integrate cfgperl and vmsperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Todo Todo-5.6 config_h.SH lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5852] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  06:08:20
+        Log: README.mint tweaks (from Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes README.mint
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5851] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  06:06:44
+        Log: make parenthetic warnings look consistent; make diagnostic on
+             "use 5.6" et al mention the alternate form; pod fixups
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c
+          ! t/comp/use.t t/pragma/strict-vars t/pragma/warn/op
+          ! t/pragma/warn/pp_hot t/pragma/warn/pp_sys toke.c universal.c
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5850] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  04:05:00
+        Log: disable unused Windows code that won't run on Windows 95
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/vmem.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5849] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  03:34:39
+        Log: $File::Find::name doesn't reflect top level files
+             correctly (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5848] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  02:46:01
+        Log: test fails when sockets not available (from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/io_unix.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5847] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  00:09:09
+        Log: under useithreads, PUSHLOOP must save PL_curpad for looking up
+             iterdata, since dounwind() may defer LEAVEs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5846] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/20  23:54:37
+        Log: Document the lib/io_multihomedt hang in 64-bit HP-Ux.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5845] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/20  23:45:24
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5844] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/20  23:17:18
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> lib/Dumpvalue.pm lib/User/pwent.pm lib/dumpvar.pl
+         !> lib/strict.pm op.c pod/perldata.pod pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/io/pipe.t t/lib/charnames.t toke.c
+         !> utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5843] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  22:14:35
+        Log: add note about symbolic filehandles (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/strict.pm pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5842] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:59:51
+        Log: perlbugtron flags in perlbug (from Richard Foley); eliminate duplicate
+             code
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5841] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:06:01
+        Log: more sleep needed from slow systems (from Peter Haworth)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/io/pipe.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5840] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:04:42
+        Log: typo in change#5839
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Dumpvalue.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5839] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:03:14
+        Log: make dumpvar.pl recognize emptyness in arrays (from Matthias Urlichs
+             <smurf@noris.de>); fix up duplicate code in Dumpvalue.pm
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Dumpvalue.pm lib/dumpvar.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5838] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  20:53:25
+        Log: mention handle autovivification in perldata (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perldata.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5837] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  20:37:42
+        Log: change#5797 didn't do the right thing for "\xff\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}"
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/charnames.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5836] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  16:27:13
+        Log: autovivify open($fh[0],...) properly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5835] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  18:51:24
+        Log: add @x->[2] bug to known issues (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5834] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  18:42:35
+        Log: Fix the socklen default type (from Laszlo Molnar;
+             though I prefer signed, not unsigned); move the cross-compialtion
+             wish item to Todo; drop excess permissions in taint.t.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Todo Todo-5.6 config_h.SH t/op/taint.t
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/protos/socksizetype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5833] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  18:20:42
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 42 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5832] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  18:01:28
+        Log: pwent.pm doc tweak (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/User/pwent.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5831] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  17:57:31
+        Log: unsigned is a more reasonable socksizetype default (from
+             Laszlo <ml1050@freemail.hu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5830] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  17:40:20
+        Log: taint.t shouldn't fail where IPC::SysV unavailable
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5829] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  17:19:46
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes embed.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5828] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  16:47:14
+        Log: squelch known scalar leak due to compile failure
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/strict-vars
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5827] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  09:20:22
+        Log: mention how to look up perllocal.pod (from Michael G Schwern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlmodinstall.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5826] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  08:49:27
+        Log: mention need to wait for children (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5825] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  08:47:52
+        Log: Pod::Man should strip leading lib/ for module manpages (from
+             Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5824] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  08:17:49
+        Log: User::pwent fixups for additional fields (from Tom Christiansen);
+             fix bug in pw_has(); tolerate absense of pw{change,age,quota}
+             and pw{comment,class} (Debian 2.1 doesn't have either of these)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/User/pwent.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5823] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:41:46
+        Log: pod typo fixes (from Marcel Grunauer <marcel.grunauer@lovely.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl embedvar.h hints/linux.sh pod/perlhack.pod
+          ! pod/perlnumber.pod pod/perlthrtut.pod vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5822] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:34:29
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread.pm pod/perlthrtut.pod
+         !> (integrate 41 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5821] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:14:38
+        Log: remove dead code
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/charnames.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5820] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:13:01
+        Log: fix typo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5819] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:09:32
+        Log: produce better error message when \N{...} is used without
+             "use charnames ..."
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5818] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  06:30:11
+        Log: default warnLevel and dieLevel to 0 in debugger (from Tom
+             Christiansen); make dumpvar.pl safe against non-glob entries
+             in stashes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Dumpvalue.pm lib/dumpvar.pl lib/perl5db.pl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5817] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  06:18:24
+        Log: better notes on s///ee (from Simon Cozens <simon@cozens.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5816] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  05:55:52
+        Log: support for C<use vmsish 'hushed'>; move VMSISH_EXIT out of
+             op_private (from Charles Lane <lane@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl op.c op.h opcode.h opcode.pl perl.h pp.sym pp_ctl.c
+          ! pp_proto.h vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5815] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  05:27:31
+        Log: fix sort optimizer to not hang inside loops
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c t/op/sort.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5814] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  03:59:29
+        Log: fixes for alias handling in debugger (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5813] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  03:38:10
+        Log: warn about CHECK and INIT blocks encountered at run time
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/warn/op
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5812] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  03:15:58
+        Log: Taint msgrcv() messages; general SysV IPC cleanup.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! doio.c ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+          ! pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/lib/ipc_sysv.t t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5811] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  01:48:47
+        Log: Taint shmread().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! doio.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5810] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  01:22:47
+        Log: Taint also the passwd field of the getpw*().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5809] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  21:44:34
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> t/pragma/strict-vars toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5808] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  21:40:55
+        Log: (Re-)introduce $uidsign and $gidsign.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh pp_sys.c vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+          ! win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/groupstype.U U/typedefs/gidtype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5807] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  20:38:12
+        Log: The #5805 requires a test change, too.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5806] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  20:10:29
+        Log: queued errors may not be displayed after the PL_error_count limit
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/strict-vars toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5805] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  19:56:12
+        Log: Taint the shell from the getpw*. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5804] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  19:37:01
+        Log: Use the newSVuv().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! embed.h op.c pp_sys.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5803] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  19:08:40
+        Log: Add newSVuv().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c perlapi.h
+          ! pod/perlapi.pod proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5802] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  17:11:07
+        Log: Configure nits: rewording from Sarathy (aka #5796),
+             and installation directories patch from Robin Parker.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Getfile.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! bincompat5005.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5801] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  16:41:31
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes Configure hints/dos_djgpp.sh lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+         !> lib/Getopt/Long.pm mg.c pod/perlpod.pod pp_hot.c
+         !> t/lib/charnames.t t/pragma/utf8.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5800] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  05:16:32
+        Log: force i_ieeefp=undef on dos_djgpp (it reportedly causes failures
+             in system includes)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/dos_djgpp.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5799] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  05:12:00
+        Log: Getopt::Long 2.23 update (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5798] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  05:03:20
+        Log: recognize single-line declarations in xsubpp; add switches to
+             disable newfangled features (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5797] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  04:21:43
+        Log: make "\N{...}" enable utf8-ness correctly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/charnames.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5796] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  04:03:08
+        Log: avoid mentioning Perl version in Configure question
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5795] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  03:32:31
+        Log: better explanation of C<> tags (from Wolfgang Laun)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlpod.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5794] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  03:26:57
+        Log: make return values from match in a list context, as well as $& et
+             al propagate utf8-ness (from Graham Barr)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! mg.c pp_hot.c t/pragma/utf8.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5793] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  01:45:30
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> hints/powerux.sh xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5792] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  01:08:25
+        Log: hints fixups for PowerMAX (from Tom Horsley)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/powerux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5791] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  23:53:21
+        Log: make reftype() consistently croak on non-refs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5790] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  23:41:36
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> configpm ext/Thread/Thread/Queue.pm
+         !> ext/Thread/Thread/Semaphore.pm ext/Thread/Thread/Specific.pm
+         !> lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldata.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5789] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  22:37:21
+        Log: fix coredump when upgrading PL_sv_yes in a second call to
+             perl_construct() (from Doug MacEachern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5788] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  22:32:25
+        Log: make noTTY debugger option work again (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5787] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  17:00:05
+        Log: make Config.pm report sane errors with older perls
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configpm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5786] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  16:48:20
+        Log: syntax errors in Thread::* (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread/Queue.pm ext/Thread/Thread/Semaphore.pm
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread/Specific.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5785] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  16:45:34
+        Log: tweak perldata section on v-strings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldata.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5784] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  16:24:28
+        Log: missing file in change#5781
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5783] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  14:38:29
+        Log: Add the NEXTSTEP strftime %j bug to Known Problems.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5782] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  14:29:46
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.pl ext/B/B/Bblock.pm global.sym lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm
+         !> lib/open.pm objXSUB.h op.c perlapi.c pod/perlcompile.pod
+         !> pod/perldebug.pod sv.c t/comp/cpp.aux t/pod/testpchk.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5781] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  06:19:17
+        Log: PodParser v1.13 update (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pod/testpchk.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5780] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  05:42:45
+        Log: propagate CvFLAGS() into clones
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5779] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  04:58:39
+        Log: documentation fixes from p5p
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Bblock.pm lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm pod/perlcompile.pod
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5778] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/17  04:23:35
+        Log: Quick pre-release fixes: clean up results in File::Spec::VMS and
+             switch dir test order in taint.t to accomodate DECCRTL extension.
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5777] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  04:13:27
+        Log: make attributes::reftype(*FOO{IO}) return "IO" instead of "UNKNOWN"
+             (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5776] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  03:40:18
+        Log: More Todo.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5775] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:40:14
+        Log: s/:def/:DEFAULT/
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/open.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5774] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:39:07
+        Log: export cv_undef() and cv_const_sv() (mod_perl uses them to
+             good advantage)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5773] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:12:34
+        Log: remove non-ANSI parts in comp/cpp.t
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/comp/cpp.aux
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5772] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  03:11:49
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> configure.com embed.h embed.pl lib/CGI.pm
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/Pod/Man.pm perl.h
+         !> pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL pp_sys.c vms/ext/vmsish.pm
+         !> vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/subconfigure.com vms/test.com
+         !> vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5771] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  03:10:34
+        Log: Make the test easier to use.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/sysio.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5770] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:04:33
+        Log: pod{man,text} updates from podlators-1.00 (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5769] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  02:53:39
+        Log: integrate vmsperl contents into mainline (no actual changes, since
+             cfgperl already had them all)
+     Branch: perl
+         !> configure.com lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm perl.h
+         !> vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5768] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  02:48:14
+        Log: fix signedness in test for syswrite() length argument
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5767] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  02:38:51
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> (integrate 28 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5766] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  02:29:24
+        Log: Add "Known Problems" section.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5765] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  00:31:19
+        Log: add missing bincompat5005 #defines
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5764] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  15:32:52
+        Log: pp_send() type tuning continues.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5763] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  04:09:37
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.c
+         !> win32/perlhost.h win32/perllib.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5762] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  04:06:36
+        Log: VMS patches from Dan Sugalski and Charles Bailey
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! configure.com ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm lib/CGI.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5761] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/16  03:18:41
+        Log: due to an oversight during PERL_OBJECT migration, hosts created
+             by pseudo-fork were never being deleted, leading to a sizeable
+             memory leak; std FDs in pseudo-children are now closed
+             automatically to avoid resource leaks; basic infinite looping
+             fork() test works without leaking again in non-PERL_OBJECT
+             build
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.c
+          ! win32/perlhost.h win32/perllib.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5760] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  01:50:13
+        Log: Fix pp_send() sizes (pass a Size_t, not an Off_t, and
+             return a SSize_t, not an Off_t); add a note about a slightly
+             similar situation in pp_truncate(); introduce $sizesize
+             for Configure; update EPOC, VOS, Win32, and VMS for the
+             sizesize; minor updates on the EPOC config file; reword
+             socklen_t message slightly; fix fpossize (though unused   currently)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh pp_sys.c vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+          ! win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! d_socklen_t.U fpossize.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5759] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  23:47:11
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5758] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  23:46:17
+        Log: Retract #5767; replace it with a tested patch
+             from Anton Berezin.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/freebsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5757] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  23:36:53
+        Log: Configure nits: do not use /tmp to avoid potential security
+             problems (Andy Dougherty: this does not fix the rampant
+             use of /tmp by the various utilities like C compilers, though.
+             Just don't run Configure as root if you care about security.),
+             fix man3dir bug (both from Andy Dougherty); fix hints files
+             not to use /tmp; retract #4993 (the description of the *symbols
+             variables is okay, after all); regen Configure.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH hints/dec_osf.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/newsos4.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          + U/modified/d_flexfnam.U
+          ! U/installdirs/man3dir.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5756] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  22:20:06
+        Log: cater for FreeBSD 5.*
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/freebsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5755] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  22:00:57
+        Log: Add missing Windows O_ constants.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5754] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/15  19:56:37
+        Log: add PL_thr_key to export list under useithreads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5753] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  04:19:19
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 37 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5752] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  03:45:28
+        Log: Make DEBUGGING a configurable option
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5751] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  03:38:57
+        Log: Remove obsolete DCL symbol from subconfigure.com
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5750] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  03:29:17
+        Log: Add VMS' default to the CGI.pm temp list (should update to File::Spec)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm
+         !> ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5749] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  02:05:28
+        Log: Change test using obsolete %COnfig element
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5748] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  23:39:42
+        Log: update local_patches entry for RC2
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5747] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  22:44:27
+        Log: more warnings tidy-ups (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod
+          ! t/lib/attrs.t utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5746] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  22:30:43
+        Log: Sys::Syslog fix for accidental arguments to autoloaded constants
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5745] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  22:20:27
+        Log: tweak to use SIZE_ONLY
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5744] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:56:48
+        Log: regen win32/config*
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5743] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:46:25
+        Log: change#5729 had syntax errors
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5742] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:26:33
+        Log: integrate vmsperl changes into mainline (change#5693 denied)
+     Branch: perl
+         !> configure.com lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/complex.t
+         !> t/lib/filespec.t vms/ext/filespec.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5741] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:17:34
+        Log: update Changes; integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+         !> ext/Socket/Socket.xs patchlevel.h perl.h t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5740] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:57:12
+        Log: perlfaq4 tweak (from Damian Conway <damian@cs.monash.edu.au>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq4.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5739] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:53:07
+        Log: allow alternates to negate correctly (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5738] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:34:19
+        Log: kludge our way around warnings on C<use POSIX; use IO::File;>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5737] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:06:23
+        Log: protect special characters better against interpretation by *roff
+             (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5736] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  19:47:00
+        Log: provide an explicit base address for perl56.dll to avoid relocations;
+             increase the default stack size (RE engine can use a lot more stack
+             than the 1MB default limit); default to using the regular version of
+             the MSVCRT even for DEBUGGING builds (this allows extensions to be
+             selectively built with debugging)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5735] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  19:31:53
+        Log: regen perltoc, other pod nits
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/poll.c pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perlnumber.pod
+          ! pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5734] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  19:08:22
+        Log: avoid dup warning (from Simon Cozens)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5733] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  18:46:50
+        Log: allow usemymalloc to be overridden via -Uusemymalloc
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5732] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  17:23:47
+        Log: test case for change#5700 (from M. J. T. Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/universal.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5731] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  17:15:44
+        Log: revise README.win32 for currentness, point to function
+             list in perlport.pod (from a patch suggested by Dominic Dunlop)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32 pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5730] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  17:14:21
+        Log: tweak sort() notes (from Nathan Torkington)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5729] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  15:13:13
+        Log: Make the tests 1018 and 1019 more robust.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5728] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  15:07:48
+        Log: Fix for one of the problems in RC1 reported by M. E. O'Neill
+             in NEXTSTEP 3.3p2.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5727] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  14:57:04
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy; unapply the #5539 that snekt in
+             with #5539.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> pod/perldebguts.pod
+          ! patchlevel.h perl.h
+         !> MANIFEST lib/Text/Abbrev.pm lib/perl5db.pl pod/perl.pod
+         !> pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlnumber.pod
+         !> t/lib/io_sock.t utils/perlcc.PL utils/perldoc.PL
+         !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5726] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  07:43:37
+        Log: fixes for Borland compiler (from Vadim Konovalov
+             <vkonovalov@lucent.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlcc.PL win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5725] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  07:38:00
+        Log: more efficient Text::Abbrev (from M.E. O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5724] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  05:59:02
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline, ignoring the
+             __attribute__((unused)) stuff that seems to have snuck
+             back in
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Todo-5.6 patchlevel.h perl.h pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod
+         !> vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5723] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  05:49:08
+        Log: patches for many bugs in the debugger; documentation updates for
+             perldelta; split perldebug.pod into perldeb{ug,guts}.pod (from
+             Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perldebguts.pod
+          ! MANIFEST lib/perl5db.pl pod/perl.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlnumber.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5722] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  05:37:29
+        Log: add sleep() to avoid race on NeXT (from M.E. O'Neill
+             <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/io_sock.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5721] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  03:53:50
+        Log: support a -U option when run as root to drop privileges (from
+             Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5720] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  03:43:51
+        Log: move the big AVAILABILITY list to perlport as Supported Platforms
+             (Tom Christiansen); add few more platforms
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5719] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  02:44:55
+        Log: more todo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5718] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  02:17:16
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5717] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  02:00:24
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! patchlevel.h perl.h
+         !> (integrate 60 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5716] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  00:01:39
+        Log: reference miscount in Devel::Peek that causes debugger to
+             crash unceremoniously when doing "V DB" etc., repeatedly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5715] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:40:23
+        Log: fixes for broken L<> links (from Wolfgang Laun
+             <wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/Win32.pod pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlcompile.pod
+          ! pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+          ! pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlnumber.pod
+          ! pod/perlop.pod pod/perlxstut.pod vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5714] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:37:48
+        Log: typos in perlboot.pod (from Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlboot.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5713] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:36:24
+        Log: avoid infinite loop in h2xs (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5712] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:29:15
+        Log: lexical warnings update for docs and tests (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm lib/fields.pm pod/perl.pod
+          ! pod/perldata.pod pod/perldbmfilter.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfilter.pod
+          ! pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+          ! pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlref.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+          ! pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltie.pod
+          ! pod/perltrap.pod pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
+          ! t/io/open.t t/lib/fields.t t/lib/parsewords.t
+          ! t/op/assignwarn.t t/op/gv.t t/op/hashwarn.t t/op/magic.t
+          ! t/op/pack.t t/op/pat.t t/op/sort.t t/op/sprintf.t
+          ! t/pragma/constant.t t/pragma/locale.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5711] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:08:29
+        Log: updates from PodParser v1.12 on CPAN (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm lib/Pod/Select.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/Usage.pm t/pod/poderrs.xr t/pod/testp2pt.pl
+          ! t/pod/testpchk.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5710] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:46:37
+        Log: cleaner logic in op.c, also avoids QNX optimizer bug (from Norton
+             Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5709] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:43:30
+        Log: mention changes to diagnostics
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5708] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:34:38
+        Log: ignore const for the purposes of typemaps (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5707] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:23:24
+        Log: don't check for errno after Atof() (atof() doesn't set errno, and
+             where Atof() is actually strto[l]d(), some platforms seem to want
+             to set errno randomly)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5706] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  18:14:18
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh hints/solaris_2.sh mg.c
+         !> perl.h pod/perl.pod pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5705] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  14:44:11
+        Log: STRLEN != int.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5704] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  13:18:07
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> lib/warnings/register.pm
+         !> (integrate 42 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5703] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  12:40:51
+        Log: mention autoflush portability caveat
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5702] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  11:09:05
+        Log: final touches for lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/warnings/register.pm
+          ! MANIFEST ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+          ! lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/I18N/Collate.pm lib/Tie/Handle.pm
+          ! lib/Tie/Hash.pm lib/Tie/Scalar.pm lib/constant.pm
+          ! lib/syslog.pl lib/vars.pm lib/warnings.pm mg.c perl.c
+          ! pod/perllexwarn.pod pp_ctl.c t/lib/filepath.t t/lib/io_sel.t
+          ! t/lib/socket.t t/lib/tie-stdhandle.t t/op/tie.t
+          ! t/pragma/constant.t t/pragma/diagnostics.t t/pragma/warn/2use
+          ! t/pragma/warn/9enabled warnings.h warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5701] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  11:00:00
+        Log: avoid compiler warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5700] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  09:57:59
+        Log: make the is_utf8_*() safe for use on invalid utf8 (they now
+             return false on such input instead of emitting warnings)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl global.sym gv.c objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+          ! pod/perlapi.pod proto.h universal.c utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5699] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  06:59:57
+        Log: the premature FREETMPS calls in change#1187 weren't defensive enough
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/recurse.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5698] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  05:03:37
+        Log: hints nibbling continues
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5697] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  04:45:57
+        Log: there's no end to tweaking
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5696] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  04:26:15
+        Log: hints tweak
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5695] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  03:54:09
+        Log: Trim out leftover hunk from prior resolve conflict
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5694] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  03:20:20
+        Log: Assorted configuration cleanups (Peter Prymmer, and a
+             bit from Charles Bailey and Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5693] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  03:00:16
+        Log: Add vmsish 'hushed' option to suppress error messages at exit
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! perl.h vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/test.com
+          ! vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5692] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:50:10
+        Log: Fix inverted test conditions for secure lnm translation
+             and default file types.  (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5691] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:41:36
+        Log: Insulate tests of default display_format from different precision
+             on different machines by truncating at 1 digit less than the most
+             common choice (.15g)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5690] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:31:44
+        Log: Resync with mainline post RC1
+     Branch: vmsperl
+         +> lib/Pod/Plainer.pm
+         !> (integrate 137 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5689] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:22:24
+        Log: Update File::Spec::VMS and tests
+             Since reduce_ricochet has been removed from File::Spec,
+             revert changes to VMS::Filespec::vmsify made to accomodate it.
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/filespec.t vms/ext/filespec.t
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5688] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:12:11
+        Log: Basic 5.6.0 RC1 build patches for VMS
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com t/pragma/warn/doio t/pragma/warn/util
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5687] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  00:41:51
+        Log: Solaris long double fixes from Alan Burlison.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh perl.h pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5686] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  00:17:13
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> dump.c hints/hpux.sh op.c pod/perldelta.pod t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5685] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  00:13:17
+        Log: Retract #5680, it broke more than it helped.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5684] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  21:48:44
+        Log: set optimize=-O only if not already set
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5683] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  20:11:45
+        Log: another optimized-OP_SASSIGN bug: ops that were not OA_TARGLEX
+             were being mistakenly subverted anyway
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c op.c pod/perldelta.pod t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5682] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  18:11:52
+        Log: update AVAILABILITY for LynxOS
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5681] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  18:03:46
+        Log: 64-bitness hints tweaks
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5680] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  17:49:25
+        Log: 64-bitness tweak: separate 64bitint and 64bitall.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5679] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  17:43:09
+        Log: metaconfig-ify #5676.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! fflushall.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5678] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  17:37:14
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes Configure Todo lib/File/DosGlob.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5677] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  11:35:10
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes Todo
+         !> Todo-5.6 perl.h pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [  5676] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  11:27:38
         Log: don't bother testing if we can flush all handles when fflush(stdin)
              shows the pipe bug