package ExtUtils::Liblist;
-use vars qw($VERSION);
+
+use 5.005_64;
# Broken out of MakeMaker from version 4.11
-$VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.25 $, 10;
+our $VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.25 $, 10;
use Config;
use Cwd 'cwd';
=head2 EXTRALIBS
List of libraries that need to be linked with when linking a perl
-binary which includes this extension Only those libraries that
+binary which includes this extension. Only those libraries that
actually exist are included. These are written to a file and used
when linking perl.
=head1 PORTABILITY
This module deals with a lot of system dependencies and has quite a
-few architecture specific B<if>s in the code.
+few architecture specific C<if>s in the code.
=head2 VMS implementation
The libraries specified may be a mixture of static libraries and
import libraries (to link with DLLs). Since both kinds are used
-pretty transparently on the win32 platform, we do not attempt to
+pretty transparently on the Win32 platform, we do not attempt to
distinguish between them.
=item *