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Module-Build-0.21_02
River stage five • 4486 direct dependents • 17571 total dependents
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Changes for version 0.21_02 - 2003-12-23

  • During testing, if YAML.pm isn't installed, then we won't try making a tarball with Archive::Tar either, since this would invoke YAML to create the META.yml file.
  • Fixed a problem with chmod() being called incorrectly on MacOS (i.e. MacPerl, not Mac OS X). [Spotted by Paul Sanford Toney]
  • Fixed a problem with the --config flag not being treated properly (essentially ignored) on the command line for 'perl Build.PL' or 'Build <action>'. [Spotted by Jakub Bogusz]
  • Added a new config() method to get at the Build object's notion of the %Config hash.
  • Test::Harness is starting to contend for the Most Crotchety Module Award. Work around a few of its nits when setting harness switches. [Spotted by Diab Jerius]
  • Changed the manpage separator on OS/2 to '.'. [Randy Sims]
  • Now the Build script will die() if we're run from the wrong directory, rather than trying to chdir() to the right directory and do its work there. See https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4039 . [Chris Dolan]
  • On OS/2, disable C compilation, since apparently it isn't working there. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich]
  • Inserted a comment into auto-generated Makefile.PLs saying it was auto-generated. [Randy Sims]
  • Fixed some annoying behavior in generated passthrough Makefile.PLs when the user chose not to install Module::Build, or if installation failed. [Reported by Ilya Zakharevich and Richard Clamp]
  • Moved the documentation for 'codebase' to the section where it's relevant. [Randy Sims, Glenn Linderman]
  • Made the 'name', 'abstract', 'author', and 'version' properties required when building a PPD file. [Spotted by Randy Sims, Dave Rolsky, & Glenn Linderman]

Changes for version 0.21_01 - 2003-12-17

  • (A snapshot just because it's been so long since anything has been released)
    • Fixed a have_c_compiler() failure on some platforms, we now define a boot_compilet() function (since we're compiling a library, not an executable). [Randy Sims]
    • Added a recipe to the Module::Build::Cookbook describing how to maintain compatibility with older versions of CPAN.pm [Jim Cromie]
    • Removed caveat about "looking for alternatives" in how hashes are specified on the command line, since an alternative has been found.
    • Previously most warnings about optional prerequisites looked like they were actually error messages about required prerequisites. This has been corrected. [Reported again by Sagar Shah]
    • Added support for building XS (and C in general) stuff on AIX. This was done by a small reorganization of prelink_c() method from Windows.pm to Build.pm, and it is only invoked for the platforms that need it invoked. AIX also massages some very naughty bits in $Config{lddlflags} that should never have been put there, but alas, they're there.
    • Added OS/2 ($^O = 'os2') to the list of Unix-like platforms. This basically means that most platform-specific operations will be done in a Unix-like manner.
    • Pass-through Makefiles will now die() when they're given a PREFIX parameter, and suggest using 'destdir' or 'install_base' instead. Previously they just ignored the parameter and tried to install to the default location, which is clearly not what the user wanted.
    • Updated my email address in the documentation to a more recent variant.
    • On some platforms it's common to have a $Config{make} defined, but no 'make' utility available. We now detect this and skip some 'make' compatibility tests. [Randy Sims]
    • Add NetBSD to the list of Unix-like systems. [Adrian Bunk]
    • Add SVR5 to the list of Unix-like systems. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
    • Fixed a spurious testing failure on non-Unix platforms that happened because we accidentally call localize_file_path() on empty strings in the test suite. [Spotted by Randy Sims on Windows]
    • Fixed a problem with creating the distribution tarball in which permissions would usually be all read-only. We now use our own file-copying routines rather than those in ExtUtils::Manifest, because those do some annoying extra permissions-setting stuff for no apparent reason. It makes me happy that this was a very very easy patch to make. [Reported by Thomas Klausner]
    • The compile_c() method now includes $Config{cccdlflags} in its command invocation. It's usually empty, but not always, so we didn't notice for a while. [Richard Clamp]
    • The have_c_compiler() now also tests whether the linker seems to work too.
    • On Unixish platforms, the syntax "FOO=BAR /bin/baz arg arg" now works when present in $Config{ld}. This solves a problem on Mac OS X 10.3. [Reported by Adam Foxson]
    • We now use Pod::Parser to find the ABSTRACT and AUTHOR when it's available on the system. [initial patch by Randy Sims]
    • Fixed a little scalar/list buglet in a documentation example.

Modules

Module::Build
Build and install Perl modules
Module::Build::Base
Default methods for Module::Build
Module::Build::Compat
Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Module::Build::Cookbook
Examples of Module::Build Usage
Module::Build::PPMMaker
Perl Package Manager file creation
Module::Build::Platform::Amiga
Builder class for Amiga platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Default
Stub class for unknown platforms
Module::Build::Platform::EBCDIC
Builder class for EBCDIC platforms
Module::Build::Platform::MPEiX
Builder class for MPEiX platforms
Module::Build::Platform::MacOS
Builder class for MacOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::RiscOS
Builder class for RiscOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Unix
Builder class for Unix platforms
Module::Build::Platform::VMS
Builder class for VMS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::VOS
Builder class for VOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Windows
Builder class for Windows platforms
Module::Build::Platform::aix
Builder class for AIX platform
Module::Build::Platform::cygwin
Builder class for Cygwin platform
Module::Build::Platform::darwin
Builder class for Mac OS X platform
Module::Build::Platform::os2
Builder class for OS/2 platform

Provides

Module::Build::Platform::Windows::BCC
in lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm
Module::Build::Platform::Windows::GCC
in lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm
Module::Build::Platform::Windows::MSVC
in lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm
Module::Build::PodParser
in lib/Module/Build/PodParser.pm

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