+6.01 Thu May 30 14:48:57 EDT 2002
+ - MacOS Classic fixes from Pudge: recursive make repair,
+ post_initialize() now used, DEFINE & INC work with relative paths,
+ removed dead hybrid method/function call code.
+ * WriteMakefile now a bit more tolerant of wrong arguments, it will
+ warn and try to soldier on rather than just vomiting.
+ - Netware whitespace nits (bleadperl@16811)
+ - Netware Perl version number tag when building dynamic libraries
+ needs to match the current perl version instead of being hard coded
+ (a mutation of bleadperl@16851)
+ - OS/2 bug in TEST_F target found by John Poltorak (bleadperl@16839)
+ - README in 6.00 still declared this as alpha.
+
+6.00 Sat May 25 17:14:09 EDT 2002
+ - VMS 8-level limit test tweak (bleadperl@16764)
+ * Here goes nothing.
+
+5.96_01 Wed May 22 19:11:09 EDT 2002
+ - Fixed ExtUtils::testlib so it doesn't taint @INC.
+ - Fixed ExtUtils::Command so it groks % shell wildcard on VMS.
+ [RT 625]
+ - MM now depends on Test::Harness 2.00 on VMS else tests with -T
+ won't work, command line too long.
+ - Added Craig's patch to fix limited level VMSs in the core.
+
+5.95_01 Sat May 18 14:40:12 EDT 2002
+ - Fixed ExtUtils::testlib so it has a reasonable chance of working
+ under taint mode.
+
+5.94_02 Fri May 17 17:16:04 EDT 2002
+ - Fixing Manifest.t test for relative @INC when core testing.
+
+5.94_01 Fri May 17 14:53:54 EDT 2002
+ - Small NetWare change from Novell.
+ - worked around 5.005_03's lack of a $Config{siteprefix} and
+ $Config{sitebin}.
+ - Small cross compilation changes (bleadperl 16582, 16548)
+
+ [[ Test Fixes ]]
+ - Fixing ExtUtils::Command tests for VMS shell wildcard differences.
+ - Fixing ExtUtils::Installed tests so they don't go looking at already
+ installed installed lists.
+
+5.93_01 Mon May 6 00:54:39 EDT 2002
+ - fixed basic.t for limited depth VMS systems
+ * MM_BeOS was totally hosed by a typo.
+ - Made the ExtUtils::Command docs clear about how things come
+ from @ARGV not @_.
+ - Quieted nmake banners in disttest
+
+ * Backporting to 5.005_03
+ - 'require 5.006' statements to 5.00503
+ - Removing uses of File::Spec::Functions
+ - Adding MODE arg to mkdir()
+ - Changing uses of 'our' to 'use vars'
+ - Changing uses of 'no warnings' to 'local $SIG{__WARN__}'
+ - Changing 3-arg opens to 2-arg
+ - Changing 'open my $fh' to 'open FH'
+ - 5.005_03's File::Find doesn't have 'no_chdir'
+
+5.92_01 Mon Apr 29 23:09:38 EDT 2002
+ - Fixing case of modules with no .pm files on VMS.
+ - LDLOADLIBS fix for NetBSD and easier overriding (bleadperl 16233)
+ * syncing in MM_MacOS from pudge.
+ - syncing in NetWare fixes (16266 & 16190)
+ - Cleaning up MM_NW5.pm somewhat.
+
+5.91_02 Wed Apr 24 01:29:56 EDT 2002
+ - Adjustments to tests for inclusion in the core.
+
+5.91_01 Wed Apr 24 00:11:06 EDT 2002
+ [[ API Changes ]]
+ * A failing Makefile.PL in a subdir will now kill the whole
+ makefile making process.
+ * "make install PREFIX=something" will no longer work. Sorry.
+ - Now supporting the usevendorprefix %Config setting
+ - Tests now guaranteed to run in alphabetical order.
+ - Allowing $VERSION = 0.
+
+ [[ Bug Fixes ]]
+ - Missing prerequisite warning malformatted.
+ - INSTALL*MAN*DIR and INST_MAN*DIR weren't allowed on the command
+ line.
+ * For years now skipcheck() has been returning a different
+ value than what was documented.
+ - Partially reversing Ken's "speed up ExtUtils::Manifest" patch
+ from 5.51_01 so MANIFEST overrides MANIFEST.SKIP.
+ * Fixed PREFIXification so it works on Win32.
+ * Fixed PREFIXification so it works on VMS.
+ - Fixed INSTALLMAN*DIR=none on VMS.
+ * NetWare fixes (bleadperl@16076)
+ - Craig Berry fixed some macro corruption on VMS.
+ - Systems configured to not have man pages now honored thanks to
+ Paul Green
+ - Hack to allow 5.6.X versions of ExtUtils::Embed use MY implicitly.
+ - Moved use of glob out of MM_Unix so MacPerl could build
+
+ [[ Test Changes ]]
+ - Shortening directory levels to accomodate old VMS's
+ - was using a slightly wrong prefix for the prefix tests
+
+ [[ Doc Fixes ]]
+ - Documenting VERBINST
+
+5.90_01 Thu Apr 11 01:11:54 EDT 2002
+ [[ API Changes ]]
+ * Implementation of the new PREFIX logic.
+ * Added new INSTALL targets:
+ INSTALLSITEBIN
+ INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR
+ INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR
+ INSTALLVENDORBIN INSTALLVENDORLIB INSTALLVENDORARCH
+ SITEPREFIX VENDORPREFIX
+ * INSTALLDIRS=site now properly using $Config{siteprefixexp}
+ (Thieved from Debian. Thanks!)
+ * Added INSTALLDIRS=vendor & support for vendor directories
+ (Thieved from Debian. Thanks!)
+
+ [[ Bug Fixes ]]
+ - nmake syntax nits from Mattia Barbon
+ - ExtUtils::Packlist fix for files with spaces in them from Jan Dubois
+ (bleadperl@15800)
+ - Old, old, old dmake bug in MM_Win32->pm_to_blib fixed by Nick
+ (bleadperl 15847)
+
+ [[ Internals ]]
+ - Purging leftover PDP compiler flags.
+
+5.55_03 Sat Apr 6 21:57:01 EST 2002
+ - Reversing "fix" for RT 444. It wasn't really fixed and it
+ caused havoc with Compress::Zlib and Tk.
+
5.55_02 Sat Apr 6 03:09:15 EST 2002
[[ Bug Fixes ]]
- Craig Berry fixed install on VMS (again, I munged the last patch)
- For some reason MM_VMS was using $Config{arch} instead of
$Config{archname}
- Fix (well, hack) for creating ABSPERL on VMS.
+ - Quieting some warnings revealed by ExtUtils::Constant
+ - test_via_script had a typo and forgot INST_ARCHLIB
[[ Test Fixes ]]
- INST.t has to tell MakeMaker it's in the PERL_CORE
- - INST_LIB doesn't change if it's in the core
+ - Fixing expected values of INST_* when building the core.
5.55_01 Thu Apr 4 23:58:06 EST 2002
[[ API Changes ]]
5.48_04 Mon Jan 21 19:28:38 EST 2002
- No longer requiring Test::More
- Now tested to work with a clean 5.6.1
- - Stripped out $Revision: 1.48 $ based $VERSIONs.
+ - Stripped out $Revision based $VERSIONs.
- Rolled in patches from p5p, vmsperl & VOS (14325, 14338, 14360, 14364)
* hint files now run in a safer context. Only $self is available.
- ExtUtils::testlib now provides absolute paths into @INC.