ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Changes for version 6.10_05 - 2003-06-06

Documenting META.yml, NO_META
Documenting the fact that distdir will auto generate META.yml and alter your manifest.
Adding META.yml autogeneration to the FAQ
Recognizing comments with leading whitespace in MANIFESTs better.
Small ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid problem on VMS (Craig Berry)
Fixed "make install UNINST=1". Appears to have been broken somewhere around 6.06_01.
Documented the fourth argument to ExtUtils::Install::install()
install() will now honor a PERL5LIB change between ExtUtils::Install loading and install() running when uninstalling shadows.
META.yml generation deals gracefully when the MANIFEST is read-only (Slaven rt.cpan.org 2723)
Fixing tests on limited dir depth VMS systems by moving the dummy-install dir one level up (Craig Berry rt.cpan.org 2747)

Changes for version 6.10_04 - 2003-05-23

Working around BSD threaading bug in version check. [from bleadperl]
Added the Makefile to the dist dependencies. (Slaven Rezic)
Reversing the find_perl() version check failure warning introced in 6.10_03. Too talkative, warned when nothing was wrong.
Fixing META.yml auto-addition when there's no newline at the end of the MANIFEST [rt.cpan.org 2444]
Making it a bit more obvious in the MANIFEST where META.yml comes from.
Fixed $_ clobbering in ExtUtils::Manifest functions.
[rt.cpan.org 2591] some LD_RUN_PATH thing (Marek Rouchal)
Added core.\d+ files to 'make clean' [rt.cpan.org 2543] (Slaven Rezic)
INST_* targets were expanded too early (Stas Bekman)
Adding ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes (bytes.pm backwards compat wrapper)
Fixing MM_MacOS so it will compile on 5.5.x machines (use bytes wrapper)
Reducing perldepend set of CORE/*.h dependencies to what 5.5.3 has. 5.5.3 should be able to compile XS again.
Eliminating fakethr.h and perlsfio.h from VMS's perldepend as they sometimes don't get installed.
ExtUtils::Install was making a few directories even with the "don't really do it" switch on (Slaven Rezic)
can build static linked perl binaries again. Probably damaged in 6.06_01 when $self->{MAKEFILE} became FIRST_MAKEFILE. (Nick Clark)

Changes for version 6.10_03 - 2003-04-11

Added NO_META WriteMakefile() option to suppress generation of META.yml. (Spoon, rt.cpan.org 2359)
Spurious linebreak in uninstall_from_sitedirs on VMS (Craig Berry)
A bit after 6.05 man page names would come out as lib::Foo::Bar if the module name didn't contain a ::. Found with podulators. Fixed.
Skipping installation of RCS ,v files.
'make ci' was busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01. Fixed. (Andreas)
'make test' was broken when there's no tests. Introduced in 6.06_03. (Stas Bekman)
Solving some directory depth problems in tests on oldish VMS systems. (Craig Berry)
Fixing MM_MacOS so it compiles on UTF-8 systems. (Jarkko)
Making find_perl() more talkative when the version check fails miserably.
Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE on VMS so XS can compile again (Craig Berry)

Changes for version 6.10_02 - 2003-04-07

Removed 2>&1 experiment introduced in 6.10_01 for all non-Unixen except for OS/2. Thought Perl might emulate `... 2>&1`. It doesn't. Just on OS/2.

Changes for version 6.10_01 - 2003-04-06

Making install "Skip ... (unchanged)" message happen consistently
Checking file sizes as well as modification times when deciding to skip installing a file.
OS/2 was using $(RM) instead of $(RM_F) (Ilya)
OS/2 needs .dll removed on failed build (Ilya)
fixin() was assuming that rename() can overwrite the target (Ilya)
manifypods target was empty if there are no pods to manify. Put in at least $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
Cygwin test to check for finding pod2man when building the perl core removed. No longer relevent.
Small fixes for dmake (Mattia Barbon)
Added "Reporting bugs" section to the PATCHING doc.
Minor bug in compile test missed ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid
Removing $(VERSION_FROM) from Makefile dependency. It was too annoying to rebuild the Makefile every time the module changed. Mentioned it in the FAQ instead.
Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE macro on VMS. Apparently it never appeared properly before. (Craig Berry)
Fixing ECHO on dmake.
Adding os_flavor() and os_flavor_is()
Making basic.t error output combine STDOUT & STDERR for easier reading.
ExtUtils::Manifest will now work case insensitively.
Fixed 'subroutine redefined' warnings in 00compile.t
Fixed it so typemaps are only looked for in the perl core library.
Hacking around VMS filesystem problems reconstructing package names from filenames in ExtUtils::Installed. (Jesper Naur)
There was no 6.06, I jumped straight to 6.10_XX because there's been
so much change between 6.05 and now.

Changes for version 6.06_05 - 2003-03-31

Syncing into bleadperl. Minor nits revealed...
AutoSplit open filehandle bug was fixed in bleadperl. Averted a warning because of this.
hint files were only being loaded if . happened to be in @INC. A bug/feature of File::Spec was stripping off the current dir from the front of hintfile paths causing Perl to look for them in @INC. Worked around.
Now checking $! for errors if a hint file returns undef
compile test was testing all of perl! Scaling back to just ExtUtils/

Changes for version 6.06_04 - 2003-03-30

Now looking for ExtUtils::xsubpp through @INC rather than just the perl core directories. This helps ExtUtils::ParseXS.
Systems which don't put their libraries under their $Config{prefix} (OS X, Debian) weren't putting their libraries in the spot declared in Config. It was going under $Config{prefix}.
Prerequisites check now deals better with X.Y_Z style alpha versions
ExtUtils::Liblist->ext() was using $Config{perllibs} which is a 5.6.1 thing. Falling back to $Config{libs} if perllibs isn't there.
ExtUtils::Command::MM now reads from @ARGV if called with no args. Makes the one liner a bit simpler.
Restored ExtUtils::Liblist::ext() for backwards compatibility. Missing since 5.6.1.
Switching to relative dirs for self-building to shorten command line lengths.
Fixing minor test warning on VMS when compiling ExtUtils::Manifest
Skipping STDIN read prompt() tests on 5.5.3. Can't test due to eof() not honor tied handles.
Config.pm on 5.5.3 doesn't have any concept of vendor*. This was causing warnings when generating the Makefile.

Changes for version 6.06_03 - 2003-03-29

Added AUTHOR and ABSTRACT_FROM info for ppd generation.
Added echo() method to portably echo text to a file.
Worked around 5.8.0 eval 'require Foo::Bar' bug causing MakeMaker to think modules weren't installed.
Modernized VMS doc_*_install targets
Changed some $(PERL) -e "print ..." code to use $(ECHO).
Replaced uses of Delete/NoLog/NoConfirm with $(RM_F) in MM_VMS
Fixed some duplicate macros making MMS happy.
Fixed $ExtUtils::MM_VMS::Revision. It was just the $VERSION before.
Fixed ExtUtils::Command::MM::perllocal_install(), uninstall(), warn_if_old_packlist().
Pulling File::Spec::VMS::fixpath() and eliminate_macros() into MM_VMS as the new cannonical location. They never should have been in F::S in the first place.
ExtUtils::Command::eqtime() would truncate the file being equalized! Holdover from exclusive .exists usage.
Cleaned up hard coded 'echo' and '@' to $(ECHO) and $(NOECHO)
$(SAY) is now $(ECHO) on VMS
Moved rogue initializations from tools_other() to init_others()
Normalized MM_VMS's tools_other() to mostly use its superclass.
split_command() was off-by-one when calculating max command line lengths causing it to run over on VMS
made split_command() a bit smarter, taking into account some macro expansion
Fixed initialization of OBJECT, DISTNAME and LDFROM on VMS
Fixed *_install target uses of File::Spec.
Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish wrapper around vmsish so MM_VMS can be compiled on non-VMS machines. For testing.
Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial about writing modules with MakeMaker.
Removed "always use h2xs" dogma.
Added compile & POD test
'make distdir' now generates META.yml module meta-data file. Proof of concept. Have to syncronize with Module::Build.
Added maniadd() to ExtUtils::Manifest to add entries to the MANIFEST
ExtUtils::Command::chmod was not interpreting file permissions as octal. Also, docs & tests slightly wrong (thanks Stas Bekman).
ExtUtils::Install was hard coding blib/lib and blib/arch, unportable
- perl #21526

Changes for version 6.06_02 - 2002-12-23

Lots of Win32 fixes busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01.
split_command() tests still not happy on Win32. Problems with shell vs Makefile escaping makes testing difficult.
VMS still broken. Need to convert File::Spec method calls back to object method calls so the weird FS::VMS->eliminate_macros() and fixpath() work again.

Changes for version 6.06_01 - 2002-12-19

Andreas found that when building the core it is desirable for MakeMaker to use a relative path to perl.
File::Spec->catfile() has a bug where the resulting file may not be canonicalized. This was causing problems when generating manpaths. MakeMaker now uses its own fixed override for catfile().
Fixed the POD recognition regex to properly catch /=head\d/ tags.
Added a PATCHING guideline document.
Updated the class hierarchy in NOTES.
Installed.t now cleans up after itself better.
Steve Purkis rewrote the manifypods system to use Pod::Man rather than pod2man. Its now portable and manifypods() moved from MM_Unix to MM_Any. As a result, lots of icky and redudant code went away. This also removes the POD2MAN macro, but noone should be using that.
"make manifypods" now works on Win32
"make manifypods" is now be faster
Made MM_Unix->find_perl more portable. Eliminated MM_Win32->find_perl override. MM_VMS->find_perl remains.
find_perl() can now handle filenames with spaces in them (RT448)
find_perl() on Win32 no longer produces spurious "File Creation error" messages (perlbug ID 20020709.001)
Removed unfinished and unused maybe_command_in_dirs()
Removed dead SelfLoader cruft from MM_Unix.
Fixed PPD generation when the ppd contains quotes (RT1473)
Fixed PPD generation on VMS
Moved Win9x specific subdir_x() code from MM_Unix to MM_Win95
Craig Berry fixed hint files on VMS
Added the perl_onliner() method to generate portable, safe one-liners
Changing hardcoded $self->{MAKEFILE} to $(FIRST_MAKEFILE).
Rafael Garcia-Suarez made MakeMaker ignore Subversion control files by default.
Added MAKEFILE_OLD macro.
No longer generating man pages by default on VMS.
Improved DISTNAME docs
Documented DISTVNAME and VERSION_SYM
Documented dist()
Seperated dist_core() into dist, tardist, uutardist, tarfile, zipdist, zipfile and shdist_target methods. Allows elimination of redundant code in MM_VMS.
Replaced WARN_IF_OLD_PACKLIST, DOC_INSTALL and UNINSTALL one-liners with ExtUtils::Command::MM functions
Replaced VMS hand-rolled perl code for TOUCH, CHMOD, RM_F and RM_RF with ExtUtils::Command functions. Added TEST_F.
Adding clean_subdirs target and clean_subdirs_target() method to generate same. This allows easier overriding of an unportable part of the clean target.
Defined DEV_NULL for MacOS
Removed ROOTEXT from MM_MacOS, apparently unused
Added $(DIRFILESEP) macro and init_DIRFILESEP to avoid hardcoding / or \. Reduces code duplication in the MM_* modules.
Added init_platform() and platform_constants() for OS specific macros. Moved OS specific macros from constants() overrides there.
Added init_VERSION() to setup various *VERSION* macros.
Added default wraplist() to make porting easier.
Added makemakerdflt_target() to guarantee 'all' is the default target.
Added special_targets() to handle things like .PHONY and make sure they come first.
Added init_linker() to initialize linker relatied macros.
MM_MacOS constants() disolves Moved MACPERL_SRC, MACPERL_LIB, MACPERL_INC from init_main() to init_platform(). Moved DEFINE and INC tweaking from constants() to init_main() Moved DEFINE_VERSION & XS_DEFINE_VERSION from constants() to init_VERSION(). Eliminated MODULES. Unused and its the same as TO_INST_PM Moved .INCLUDE from constants() to special_targets()
MM_NW5 constants() & init_others() disolves Moved LIBPTH, BASE_IMPORT, NLM_VERSION, MPKTOOL, TOOLPATH from init_others() to init_platform() Moved INCLUDE and PATH definitions from constants() to init_platform() Moved BOOT_SYMBOL, NLM_SHORT_NAME, PATH and INCLUDE from constants() to init_platform()
MM_Unix constants() goes on a diet Moved all macro definitions to init_* methods. Added MM_REVISION for completeness Using wraplist() instead of manual joining Moved .NO_CONFIG_REC, .SUFFIXES and .PHONY to special_targets() Moved makemakerdflt: to makemakerdeflt_target() Moved INST_{STATIC,DYNAMIC,BOOT} to init_INST() Moved EXPORT_LIST, PERL_ARCHIVE & PERL_ARCHIVE_AFTER to init_linker(). Moved PERL_MALLOC_DEF to init_platform()
MM_VMS constants() goes on a diet Moved DEFINE from constants() to init_main() Moved OBJECT & LDFROM from constants() to init_others() Moved MM_VMS_REVISION and PERL_VMS to init_platform Added MM_VMS_VERSION Moved DEFINE_VERSION, XS_DEFINE_VERSION and MAKEMAKER changes to init_VERSION Moved .SUFFIXES changes to special_targets() override. Eliminated $self->{PM_TO_BLIB}. Its redundant with $self->{PM}. constants() now consists only of fixpath() calls.
MM_Win32 constants() goes away Moved .USESHELL to special_targets() override. Everything else was redundant.
Added $(VERSION_FROM) to $(MAKEFILE) dependencies. Helpful for XS builds where the version number is very sensitive.
export_list(), perl_archive() and perl_archive_after() consolodated into init_linker().
Added MM_NW5_VERSION, MM_Unix_VERSION, MM_Win32_VERSION, MM_VMS_VERSION.
Eliminated duplicate code in constants() overrides
Added all_target() for easier customization of what's run by default
Eliminated duplicate top_targets() overrides
Made tool_autosplit() method portable. Moved to MM_Any. Eliminated overrides.
Adding realclean_subdirs target and realclean_subdirs_target() method to generate same. This allows easier overriding of an unportable part of the realclean target.
Added oneliner() to create portable perl one-liners.
Craig Berry found some typos in ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid's VMS part
ExtUtils::Install did not work on MacPerl due to a hardcoded '.'
prompt() will now read from STDIN.
Craig Berry made sure extliblist() is always called even if LIBS is explicitly set to empty.
Added DESTDIR to make repacking easier.
$(*PREFIX) are returned to the INSTALL* variables.
Split $(PREFIX) into $(PERLPREFIX) and $(PREFIX). The former holds the location of the core libraries. The latter is the optional override prefix supplied by the user.
PREFIX overrides all other *PREFIXes when set in the Makefile.PL. This restores "make install PREFIX=foo".
Added quote_literal() to handle some shell quoting.
ExtUtils::MM_VMS now compilable on non-VMS platforms.
J. D. Laub made MakeMaker honor $Config{installstyle}
Renaming on OS/2 requires the target file to be removed. Partially fixed by Ilya, should be applied universally later.
Default MANIFEST.SKIP not catching files in subdirs. Fixed by Ilya.
Ilya fixed ExtUtils::Liblist->ext when called outside MakeMaker.
realclean was duplicating work already done by clean
Adding an explicit LICENSE
Cleaning up ExtUtils::Install docs.
ExtUtils::Install::uninstall() now has default verbose and dont_execute arguments.
Added some basic ExtUtils::Install tests
Fixed ExtUtils::Install::install() for relative dirs
Added split_command() and max_exec_len() to deal with long commands.
Seperated escape_newlines() from quote_literal(). This may be pointless.
pm_to_blib() now generated with split_command(). 3x speedup.
added init_dist() to initialize distribution constants
ExtUtils::Install::pm_to_blib() working around open filehandle bug in AutoSplit for systems with mandatory file locking.

Documentation

ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About MakeMaker

ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial

Writing a module with MakeMaker

Modules

ExtUtils::Command

utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.

ExtUtils::Command::MM

Commands for the MM's to use in Makefiles

ExtUtils::Install

install files from here to there

ExtUtils::Installed

Inventory management of installed modules

ExtUtils::Liblist

determine libraries to use and how to use them

ExtUtils::MM

OS adjusted ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass

ExtUtils::MM_Any

Platform agnostic MM methods

ExtUtils::MM_BeOS