6.10_01 just hit CPAN. I jumped to 6.10 because so much changed between
6.05 and now a +.01 release just didn't seem to be enough.
AFAIK This release should solve all current problems. Let me know otherwise.
Non-Unix users should note I'm trying a little experiment. In order to
make basic.t's failure diagnostics easier to read I've tried combining
the STDOUT and STDERR output of the `make some_target` tests using 2>&1
on Unix and also non-Unixen in 5.8.0 and up. I believe `foo 2>&1` is
supposed to be emulated, though I am pessimistic that it will work.
MacPerl and VMS have already been identified as exceptions. The logic
for this is in t/lib/MakeMaker/Test/Utils.pm in the run() function.
6.10_01 Sun Apr 6 19:31:42 PDT 2003
- Making install "Skip ... (unchanged)" message happen consistently
- Checking file sizes as well as modification times when deciding
to skip installing a file.
- OS/2 was using $(RM) instead of $(RM_F) (Ilya)
- OS/2 needs .dll removed on failed build (Ilya)
- fixin() was assuming that rename() can overwrite the target (Ilya)
- manifypods target was empty if there are no pods to manify. Put in
at least $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
- Cygwin test to check for finding pod2man when building the perl core
removed. No longer relevent.
- Small fixes for dmake (Mattia Barbon)
* Added "Reporting bugs" section to the PATCHING doc.
- Minor bug in compile test missed ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid
- Removing $(VERSION_FROM) from Makefile dependency. It was too
annoying to rebuild the Makefile every time the module changed.
Mentioned it in the FAQ instead.
- Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE macro on VMS. Apparently it never appeared
properly before. (Craig Berry)
- Fixing ECHO on dmake.
- Adding os_flavor() and os_flavor_is()
- Making basic.t error output combine STDOUT & STDERR for easier
reading.
- ExtUtils::Manifest will now work case insensitively.
- Fixed 'subroutine redefined' warnings in 00compile.t
- Fixed it so typemaps are only looked for in the perl core library.
- Hacking around VMS filesystem problems reconstructing package names
from filenames in ExtUtils::Installed. (Jesper Naur)
# There was no 6.06, I jumped straight to 6.10_XX because there's been
# so much change between 6.05 and now.
6.06_05 Mon Mar 31 02:44:11 PST 2003
- Syncing into bleadperl. Minor nits revealed...
- AutoSplit open filehandle bug was fixed in bleadperl. Averted a
warning because of this.
- hint files were only being loaded if . happened to be in @INC.
A bug/feature of File::Spec was stripping off the current dir from
the front of hintfile paths causing Perl to look for them in @INC.
Worked around.
- Now checking $! for errors if a hint file returns undef
- compile test was testing all of perl! Scaling back to just ExtUtils/
--
5. It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems
into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases
this is a bad idea.
-- RFC 1925
