Remove bad advice : -M doesn't work on the #! line
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@@ -28,6 +28,193 @@ example from http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
 Version v5.7.X         Development release working toward v5.8
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+[ 17573] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/16  13:14:34
+        Log: Mac OS X dyld problem: try more direct action first.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17572] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/16  13:06:04
+        Log: More explicit solution for the Mac OS X "dyld undefined symbols"
+             problem.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17571] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/16  12:25:07
+        Log: Upgrade to Locale::Codes 2.06.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Locale/Codes/ChangeLog lib/Locale/Codes/README
+          ! lib/Locale/Country.pm lib/Locale/Country.pod
+          ! lib/Locale/Currency.pm lib/Locale/Language.pm
+          ! lib/Locale/Script.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17570] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/16  02:57:47
+        Log: integrate a variant of change#17568 from maint-5.6 branch (the
+             do_exec parts elided so that change is restricted strictly to
+             windows; binary compatibility stubs not needed)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.fnc embed.h global.sym iperlsys.h makedef.pl pp_sys.c
+          ! proto.h win32/perlhost.h win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17569] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/16  02:26:12
+        Log: Integrate change #16844 from maint:
+             
+             extension of change#16332: isolate signal diddling to the main
+             interpreter (fixes signal-related races, e.g. when multiple
+             threads run system())
+     Branch: perl
+         !> util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17568] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/16  01:26:12
+        Log: on windows, expose do_{spawn,spawn_nowait,exec,aspawn} as part of
+             perl API; as a result spawnvp() is now the only one that belongs in
+             iperlsys.h interface (stubs retained in structure for bincompat)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl global.sym globals.c iperlsys.h makedef.pl
+          ! objXSUB.h perlapi.c pp_sys.c proto.h win32/perlhost.h
+          ! win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17567] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/16  00:27:12
+        Log: integrate change#17566 from maint-5.6 branch
+             
+             on windows, ensure child processes that get run via backticks get
+             the right pipe handle at stdin/stdout; this is needed to make
+             subprocesses see the correct standard handles such that backticks
+             and piped open()s work when run from within GUI applications
+             
+             this also makes it possible to launch wperl.exe in backticks
+             from within an application that has no std handles without a
+             new blank console window popping up
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17566] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/16  00:06:14
+        Log: on windows, ensure child processes that get run via backticks get
+             the right pipe handle at stdin/stdout; this is needed to make
+             subprocesses see the correct standard handles such that backticks
+             and piped open()s work when run from within GUI applications
+             
+             this also makes it possible to launch wperl.exe in backticks
+             from within an application that has no std handles without a
+             new blank console window popping up
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17565] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/15  23:58:49
+        Log: change#16528 merged the fix for my_popen() but missed my_popen_list()
+             which had the same code (and bugs) duplicated; add changes#16329,16331
+             into my_popen_list()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17564] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/15  23:45:08
+        Log: add missing xref in Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17563] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  22:38:31
+        Log: IRIX -O2 trick (needs verification from John P. Linderman) 
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17562] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  22:30:29
+        Log: Subject: Typo? in perlxstut.pod + PATCH
+             From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl@research.att.com>
+             Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
+             Message-Id: <200207151808.OAA53989@raptor.research.att.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlxstut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17561] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  21:11:04
+        Log: Split "Known problems" into "Known problems" (generic,
+             or shared among several platforms) and "Platform Specific
+             Problems".
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17560] By: rgs                                   on 2002/07/15  20:13:22
+        Log: Clarify the PerlIO::scalar docs (suggested by Elizabeth
+             Mattijsen.)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17559] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  18:59:23
+        Log: Retract #17486: OS/2 didn't like it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17558] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  18:39:11
+        Log: Add #!./perl, noticed by John Adams.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17557] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  17:14:41
+        Log: Regen toc.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17556] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  17:12:28
+        Log: Add a section on ithreads; rearrange the sections a bit.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17555] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  16:29:06
+        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] reinclude ODBM_File & NDBM_File in Cygwin build
+             From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+             Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:04:02 -0700
+             Message-ID: <CCwM9gzkg25T092yn@efn.org>
+             
+             Document which tests will fail.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17554] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  16:26:55
+        Log: Subject: [ID 20020715.009] perl 5.8.0 RC3 incorrectly tests gcc version on Tru64 UNIX V4.0F
+             From: Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
+             Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:23:54 +0200 (MET DST)
+             Message-Id: <5.8.0_22255_1026753561@rimsky>
+             
+             (also raise the gcc minimum to 2.95.3)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/dec_osf.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17553] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  14:56:42
+        Log: configure.gnu wants to be executable, too.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Porting/makerel
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17552] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  14:35:31
+        Log: DJGPP broke after 5.7.3, so that's good news.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17551] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  13:49:27
+        Log: Retract #17550: the build/test time warnings do not
+             belong to perldelta, they belong to the announcement.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17550] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  13:46:51
+        Log: (retracted by #17551)
+             Copy the warnings about build and test times from
+             the RC announcements to perldelta.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17549] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  13:38:53
+        Log: Try to future proof the op/taint.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17548] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  13:35:49
+        Log: Squash "uninitialized" warning from gcc.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 17547] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  13:33:20
+        Log: Update Changes.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [ 17546] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/15  13:04:59
         Log: Subject: Re: Core dump in perl_clone (even with 'use threads;' first) [PATCH]
              From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
@@ -7246,7 +7433,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________
           ! ext/threads/shared/t/cond.t
 ____________________________________________________________________________
 [ 16528] By: nick                                  on 2002/05/09  16:40:39
-        Log: Integrate maint branch io (pipe) fixes.
+        Log: Integrate maint branch io (pipe) fixes. (changes#16329,16330,16331)
      Branch: perl
          !> doio.c pp_sys.c util.c
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