1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::CBuilder.
3 0.2602 - Sat Jul 4 10:57:12 EDT 2009
6 - Fixed 00-have-compiler.t if $^X is a relative path [David Wheeler]
8 0.2601 - Wed Jul 1 09:37:39 EDT 2009
11 - On VMS, cleans up extra files generated during testing
12 [John E. Malmberg, Craig Berry]
14 0.26 - Mon Jun 29 20:11:52 EDT 2009
16 - No changes from 0.25_01
18 0.25_01 - Sat Jun 27 23:13:20 EDT 2009
20 - Changed test library to Test::More
22 - Added tests for have_compiler
24 - Skips tests that need a compiler if have_compiler is false
26 - have_compiler will try to compile in the current directory
27 if compiling in tmpdir fails for whatever reason
29 0.25 - Fri Jun 26 16:18:13 EDT 2009
31 - Slight diagnostic improvements in link.t
33 0.24_01 - Sun Mar 8 14:50:10 2009
35 - On Windows, don't generate "mt" command when CRT is statically
38 - On Cygwin, examine $Config{useshrplib} to see whether we're
39 supposed to be linking with a shared perl library or not. [Reini
42 - In link_executable() on Cygwin, trust $Config{ld} rather than using
43 $Config{cc} for linking. [Reini Urban]
45 - Add 'haiku' as a Unix-like platform. [Ingo Weinhold]
47 0.24 - Fri Aug 15 22:01:48 2008
49 - Added 'gnu' and 'gnukfreebsd' as Unix variants. [Niko Tyni]
51 - Brought in some VMS fixes from bleadperl: "Correct and complete
52 CBuilder's handling of external libraries when linking on VMS."
55 0.23 - Sat Apr 19 22:28:03 2008
57 - Fixed some problems (some old, some new) with Strawberry Perl on
58 Windows. [Alberto Simo~es]
60 - Will now install in the core perl lib directory when the user's
61 perl is new enough to have us in core. [Yi Ma Mao]
63 0.22 - Fri Feb 8 21:52:21 2008
65 - Replaced the split_like_shell() method on Windows with a
66 near-no-op, which is probably more correct and has the benefit of
67 not messing up UNC paths. [John R. LoVerso, see
68 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26545]
70 - Fixed extra_compiler_flags on Windows, they were being
73 0.21 - Tue Oct 30 06:46:01 2007
75 - Clean up perl_src path using Cwd::realpath(). Only affects usage
76 as part of the perl core.
78 - Protect $., $@, $!, $^E, and $? from any clobbering that might
79 occur in our DESTROY method. [Zefram]
81 - From bleadperl, a patch to clean up debug symbol files (.pdb for
82 VC++, .tds for BCC) when running have_compiler(). [Steve Hay &
85 0.19 - Sun May 13 14:29:18 2007
87 - When building as part of the perl core (so this is irrelevant for
88 people downloading from CPAN) we now try a little harder to find
89 the perl sources. [Jos Boumans]
91 - Fixed a part of the manifest thingy that got broken on 64-bit
92 Windows platforms in version 0.18. [Steve Hay, Jan Dubois]
94 0.18 - Mon Mar 26 21:29:09 2007
97 + Put .LIB file near .DEF file
98 + Got library-file building working better
99 + Handled libperl_overrides better
102 - On Windows: embed manifest files in DLLs built with Module-Build
103 when using VC8. [Steve Hay]
105 - Added a workaround for a config error on dec_osf: the linker is
106 $Config{cc}, not $Config{ld}. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
108 - Borland's compiler "response files" will not pass through macro
109 definitions that contain quotes. The quotes get stripped and there
110 seems to be no way to escape them. So we leave macros on the
111 command line. [Randy W. Sims]
113 0.18 Sat Mar 25 13:35:47 CST 2006
115 - Yet more fixes for arg_defines() on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and John
118 0.17 Wed Mar 15 22:46:15 CST 2006
120 - When we're being run from an uninstalled perl distribution
121 (e.g. one that's in the process of being built and tested), we
122 search for perl first in the current working directory. [Randy
125 - More fixing of the arg_defines() method on VMS. [Craig A. Berry and
128 0.16 Mon Mar 13 17:08:21 CST 2006
130 - Fix quoting of command line arguments on Windows. [Yitzchak
133 - Provided a custom arg_defines() on VMS that does essentially the
134 same thing for /define that version 0.14 did for /include. [Craig
137 - Documented the existing 'quiet' parameter, which silences the
138 printing of system() commands. [Suggested by Yitzchak
141 0.15 Mon Oct 3 17:10:32 CDT 2005
143 - Several OS/2 fixes have been made, including: 1) adding the
144 necessary version string to DLLs, 2) passing the executable's name
145 to 'ldopts' without the .exe extension, 3) avoiding calling 'env'
146 via the 'shrpenv' thingy, since it triggers a fork() bug. [Ilya
149 - Integrate a couple cleanup-related changes from bleadperl that
150 somehow never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
152 - Added a new 'defines' parameter to compile(), which gives a
153 platform-independant way to specify various -Dfoo=bar (or the
154 equivalent) compiler defines. [Randy W. Sims]
156 0.14 Mon Sep 19 13:40:37 CDT 2005
158 - Several fixes have been made for VMS, including: 1) there can only
159 be one /include qualifier, so merge multiple /includes into one; 2)
160 make sure the executable is named the same way that dynaloader will
161 look for it; 3) make sure the option files for the exported symbols
162 and the PERLSHR image are passed properly to the linker. [John
165 0.13 Wed Aug 24 20:05:59 CDT 2005
167 - Several temporary files weren't being cleaned up during testing,
168 because the 'cleanup' mechanism was never properly implemented.
169 This is now fixed. [Steve Hay]
171 0.12 Mon May 30 16:40:10 CDT 2005
173 - In order to integrate into the perl core, patches were contributed
174 that a) put a $VERSION variable in each .pm file, b) add a 'quiet'
175 parameter to new() to shut up some of the command-echoing, c)
176 checks for the perl source headers in the CORE/ directory in the
177 perl source tree, not in the post-installation location, and d)
178 adjusts the CWD when running the regression tests under the perl
179 core. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
181 - Various parts of the code were looking for the CORE/ directory in
182 $Config{archlib}, $Config{installarchlib}, and $Config{archlibexp}.
183 Only the latter is correct, so we use that everywhere now.
186 - For Unix-ish platforms, link_executable() will now prefer
187 $Config{cc} to $Config{ld}, because that typically works
188 better. [Jarkko Hietaniemi and H.Merijn Brand]
190 - Prelinking (invoking ExtUtils::Mksymlists to create options-files)
191 is now only done when we're building dynamic libraries. [Yitzchak
194 0.11 Tue Apr 5 20:58:41 CDT 2005
196 - Added a licensing statement to CBuilder.pm. [Spotted by Chip
199 0.10 Mon Mar 14 20:18:19 CST 2005
201 - Split out a few simple routines that format how compile switches
202 are formatted, so that we can override them for platforms like VMS
203 where they're very different.
205 - Fix compile() and link() on VMS. [Help from Michael Schwern and
208 0.09 Tue Feb 8 17:57:41 CST 2005
210 - Fixed a broken link_executable() method on cygwin - it now uses
211 'gcc' instead of $Config{ld} for the linking, because the latter is
212 actually a shell script which calls a perl script which calls gcc
213 in a way that only works for creating shared libraries, not
216 0.08 Tue Jan 18 21:54:11 CST 2005
218 - Fixed a testing error in which I had the prototype wrong for the
219 main() function. [Jose Pedro Oliveira]
221 0.07 Wed Jan 12 21:50:34 CST 2005
223 - Added the link_executable() method, which provides the ability to
224 create standalone executables. This is NOT yet implemented on
225 Windows, and therefore the tests for it are skipped on Win32.
226 [Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes]
228 - Integrated the latest split_like_shell() for Windows from
229 Module::Build (really need to find a better home for this code...),
230 which now does a much better job of handling quotes and backslashes
231 and so on. [Randy Sims]
233 - Fixed a couple of Windows problems related to the output-file name
234 in link(), and some clobbering of the 'include_dirs' parameter to
235 compile(). [Randy Sims]
237 0.06 Mon Dec 27 22:51:36 CST 2004
239 - Fixed a bug on Unix environments in which our work-around for
240 shell-commands like "FOO=BAR cc" (which is supposed to be turned
241 into "env FOO=BAR cc" to actually work) wasn't being called.
243 0.05 Wed Oct 13 23:09:09 CDT 2004
245 - Fixed a bug in split_like_shell() in which leading whitespace was
246 creating an empty word, manifesting as something like "gcc - no
247 such file or directory" during tests. [Spotted by Warren L. Dodge]
249 - Incorporate another split_like_shell() fix from Module::Build.
251 0.04 Sun Oct 10 00:31:08 CDT 2004
253 - Changed the split_like_shell() method to use the shellwords()
254 function from Text::ParseWords (a core module since 5.0), which
255 does a much better job than the split() we were using.
258 0.03 Fri May 14 23:12:23 CDT 2004
260 - Fixed minor problems with the Build.PL file, the module names
263 - The VMS module declared itself with the wrong package name.
266 0.02 Fri Feb 20 10:17:40 CST 2004
268 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which compile() was
269 ignoring an 'include_dirs' argument. [Randy Sims]
271 - Fixed a bug in .../Platform/Windows.pm, in which output files were
272 being created in the root directory \ when they should be created
273 in the current directory. [Randy Sims]
276 0.01 Mon Jan 12 08:12:35 CST 2004
278 - Original release, taken from Module::Build's C-building code, with
279 patching help from Randy Sims.