5 * Updated Makefile.PL for Strawberry Perl.
6 Patch suggested by David Golden.
8 * Remove IRIX notes from README. The page referenced doesn't exist
15 * Applied core patch 32299 - Re-apply change #30562
17 * Applied core patch 32208
19 * Applied core patch 32884 - use MM->parse_version() in Makefile.PL
21 * Applied core patch 32883 - Silence new warning grep in void context warning
23 * Applied core patch 32704 to remove use of PL_na in typemap
25 * Applied core patch 30562 to fix a build issue on OSF
29 * Clarified the warning about building with a different version of
30 Berkeley DB that is used at runtime.
32 * Also made the boot version check less strict.
37 * A few casting cleanups for building with C++ from Steve Peters.
39 * Fixed problem with recno which happened if you changed directory after
40 opening the database. Problem reported by Andrew Pam.
43 1.814 11 November 2005
45 * Fix from Dominic Dunlop to tidy up an OS-X specific warning in
48 * Silenced a warning about $DB_File::Error only being used once.
49 Issue spotted by Dominic Dunlop.
51 1.813 31st October 2005
53 * Updates for Berkeley DB 4.4
55 1.812 9th October 2005
57 * Added libscan to Makefile.PL
59 * Fixed test failing under windows
63 * Fixed DBM filter bug in seq
67 * Fixed db-hash.t for Cygwin
69 * Added substr tests to db-hast.t
71 * Documented AIX build problem in README.
75 * Merged core patch 22258
77 * Merged core patch 22741
79 * Fixed core bug 30237.
80 Using substr to pass parameters to the low-level Berkeley DB interface
81 causes problems with Perl 5.8.1 or better.
82 typemap fix supplied by Marcus Holland-Moritz.
84 1.808 22nd December 2003
86 * Added extra DBM Filter tests.
88 * Fixed a memory leak in ParseOpenInfo, which whould occur if the
89 opening of the database failed. Leak spotted by Adrian Enache.
91 1.807 1st November 2003
93 * Fixed minor typos on pod documetation - reported by Jeremy Mates &
96 * dbinfo updated to report when a database is encrypted.
98 1.806 22nd October 2002
100 * Fixed problem when trying to build with a multi-threaded perl.
102 * Tidied up the recursion detetion code.
104 * merged core patch 17844 - missing dTHX declarations.
106 * merged core patch 17838
108 1.805 1st September 2002
110 * Added support to allow DB_File to build with Berkeley DB 4.1.X
112 * Tightened up the test harness to test that calls to untie don't generate
113 the "untie attempted while %d inner references still exist" warning.
115 * added code to guard against calling the callbacks (compare,hash & prefix)
118 * pasing undef for the flags and/or mode when opening a database could cause
119 a "Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warning. Now silenced.
121 * DBM filter code beefed up to cope with read-only $_.
125 * Perl core patch 14939 added a new warning to "splice". This broke the
126 db-recno test harness. Fixed.
128 * merged core patches 16502 & 16540.
132 * Fixed a problem with db-btree.t where it complained about an "our"
133 variable redeclaation.
135 * FETCH, STORE & DELETE don't map the flags parameter into the
136 equivalent Berkeley DB function anymore.
138 1.802 6th January 2002
140 * The message about some test failing in db-recno.t had the wrong test
143 * merged core patch 13942.
145 1.801 26th November 2001
147 * Fixed typo in Makefile.PL
149 * Added "clean" attribute to Makefile.PL
151 1.800 23rd November 2001
153 * use pport.h for perl backward compatability code.
155 * use new ExtUtils::Constant module to generate XS constants.
157 * upgrade Makefile.PL upgrade/downgrade code to toggle "our" with
160 1.79 22nd October 2001
162 * Added a "local $SIG{__DIE__}" inside the eval that checks for
163 the presence of XSLoader s suggested by Andrew Hryckowin.
165 * merged core patch 12277.
167 * Changed NEXTKEY to not initialise the input key. It isn't used anyway.
169 1.79 22nd October 2001
171 * Fixed test harness for cygwin
175 * the test in Makefile.PL for AIX used -plthreads. Should have been
178 * merged Core patches
179 10372, 10335, 10372, 10534, 10549, 10643, 11051, 11194, 11432
181 * added documentation patch regarding duplicate keys from Andrew Johnson
186 * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for
187 AIX and adds it to the link options.
189 * Minor documentation updates.
191 * Merged Core patch 9176
193 * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
196 * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
199 1.76 15th January 2001
201 * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
202 with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
206 1.75 17th December 2000
208 * Fixed perl core patch 7703
210 * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
211 btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
213 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
216 1.74 10th December 2000
218 * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
219 thinking it was one of its macros.
221 * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
223 * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
226 * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
229 * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
232 * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
233 This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
235 * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
237 * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
238 When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
239 "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
243 * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
245 * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
246 harness has been updated to reflect this.
248 1.72 16th January 2000
252 * The module will now use XSLoader when it is available. When it
253 isn't it will use DynaLoader.
255 * The locking section in DB_File.pm has been discredited. Many thanks
256 to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
257 the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
260 1.71 7th September 1999
262 * Fixed a bug that prevented 1.70 from compiling under win32
264 * Updated to support Berkeley DB 3.x
266 * Updated dbinfo for Berkeley DB 3.x file formats.
270 * Initialise $DB_File::db_ver and $DB_File::db_version with
271 GV_ADD|GV_ADDMULT -- bug spotted by Nick Ing-Simmons.
273 * Added a BOOT check to test for equivalent versions of db.h &
278 * fixed a bug in push -- DB_APPEND wasn't working properly.
280 * Fixed the R_SETCURSOR bug introduced in 1.68
282 * Added a new Perl variable $DB_File::db_ver
286 * Merged changes from 5.005_58
288 * Fixed a bug in R_IBEFORE & R_IAFTER procesing in Berkeley DB
291 * Added some of the examples in the POD into the test harness.
295 * Added DBM Filter documentation to DB_File.pm
297 * Fixed DBM Filter code to work with 5.004
299 * A few instances of newSVpvn were used in 1.66. This isn't available in
300 Perl 5.004_04 or earlier. Replaced with newSVpv.
304 * Added DBM Filter code
308 * Fixed a bug in the recno PUSH logic.
309 * The BOOT version check now needs 2.3.4 when using Berkeley DB version 2
311 1.64 21st February 1999
313 * Tidied the 1.x to 2.x flag mapping code.
314 * Added a patch from Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> to fix a flag
315 mapping problem with O_RDONLY on the Hurd
316 * Updated the message that db-recno.t prints when tests 51, 53 or 55 fail.
318 1.63 19th December 1998
320 * Fix to allow DB 2.6.x to build with DB_File
321 * Documentation updated to use push,pop etc in the RECNO example &
322 to include the find_dup & del_dup methods.
324 1.62 30th November 1998
326 Added hints/dynixptx.pl.
327 Fixed typemap -- 1.61 used PL_na instead of na
329 1.61 19th November 1998
331 Added a note to README about how to build Berkeley DB 2.x when
333 Minor modifications to get the module to build with DB 2.5.x
334 Fixed a typo in the definition of O_RDONLY, courtesy of Mark Kettenis.
337 Changed the test to check for full tied array support
340 Updated the license section.
342 Berkeley DB 2.4.10 disallows zero length keys. Tests 32 & 42 in
343 db-btree.t and test 27 in db-hash.t failed because of this change.
344 Those tests have been zapped.
346 Added dbinfo to the distribution.
349 Tied Array support was enhanced in Perl 5.004_57. DB_File now
350 supports PUSH,POP,SHIFT,UNSHIFT & STORESIZE.
352 Fixed a problem with the use of sv_setpvn. When the size is
353 specified as 0, it does a strlen on the data. This was ok for DB
354 1.x, but isn't for DB 2.x.
357 If Perl has been compiled with Threads support,the symbol op will be
358 defined. This clashes with a field name in db.h, so it needs to be
359 #undef'ed before db.h is included.
362 Documented the Solaris 2.5 mutex bug
369 Fixed a small bug in the test harness when run under win32
370 The emulation of fd when useing DB 2.x was busted.
374 Added DB_RENUMBER to flags for recno.
378 Patch from Nick Ing-Simmons now allows DB_File to build on NT.
383 Fixed the test harness so that it doesn't expect DB_File to have
384 been installed by the main Perl build.
387 Fixed a bug in mapping 1.x O_RDONLY flag to 2.x DB_RDONLY equivalent
391 DB_File can now build with either DB 1.x or 2.x, but not both at
396 A harmless looking tab was causing Makefile.PL to fail on AIX 3.2.5
398 Small fix for the AIX strict C compiler XLC which doesn't like
399 __attribute__ being defined via proto.h and redefined via db.h. Fix
400 courtesy of Jarkko Hietaniemi.
404 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to suppress "use of undefined
405 value" warning with db_get and db_seq.
407 Patch from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make DB_File export only the
408 O_* constants from Fcntl.
410 Removed the DESTROY method from the DB_File::HASHINFO module.
412 Previously DB_File hard-wired the class name of any object that it
413 created to "DB_File". This makes sub-classing difficult. Now
414 DB_File creats objects in the namespace of the package it has been
420 Made it illegal to tie an associative array to a RECNO database and
421 an ordinary array to a HASH or BTREE database.
425 Minor changes to DB_FIle.xs and DB_File.pm
429 Documented the incompatibility with version 2 of Berkeley DB.
433 Documented the untie gotcha.
437 Fixed fd method so that it still returns -1 for in-memory files
438 when db 1.86 is used.
442 Minor bug fix in DB_File::HASHINFO, DB_File::RECNOINFO and
445 Changed default mode to 0666.
449 Documented operation of bval.
453 Fixed bug with RECNO, where bval wasn't defaulting to "\n".
457 Minor namespace cleanup: Localized PrintBtree.
461 Made all scripts in the documentation strict and -w clean.
463 Added logic to DB_File.xs to allow the module to be built after
468 Minor documentation changes.
470 Fixed a bug in hash_cb. Patches supplied by Dave Hammen,
471 <hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.govt>.
473 Fixed a bug with the constructors for DB_File::HASHINFO,
474 DB_File::BTREEINFO and DB_File::RECNOINFO. Also tidied up the
475 constructors to make them -w clean.
477 Reworked part of the test harness to be more locale friendly.
481 Documentation update.
483 DB_File now imports the constants (O_RDWR, O_CREAT etc.) from Fcntl
486 The standard hash function exists is now supported.
488 Modified the behavior of get_dup. When it returns an associative
489 array, the value is the count of the number of matching BTREE
494 Merged OS/2 specific code into DB_File.xs
496 Removed some redundant code in DB_File.xs.
498 Documentation update.
500 Allow negative subscripts with RECNO interface.
502 Changed the default flags from O_RDWR to O_CREAT|O_RDWR.
504 The example code which showed how to lock a database needed a call
505 to sync added. Without it the resultant database file was empty.
507 Added get_dup method.
511 Fixed a core dump problem with SunOS.
513 The return value from TIEHASH wasn't set to NULL when dbopen
518 DB_File has been in use for over a year. To reflect that, the
519 version number has been incremented to 1.0.
521 Added complete support for multiple concurrent callbacks.
523 Using the push method on an empty list didn't work properly. This
528 Added prototype support for multiple btree compare callbacks.
532 When DB_File is opening a database file it no longer terminates the
533 process if dbopen returned an error. This allows file protection
534 errors to be caught at run time. Thanks to Judith Grass
535 <grass@cybercash.com> for spotting the bug.