Thanks to Ned Konz's speedy advice, I have have uploaded a stopgap 0.76_98 prerelease on CPAN. It is also available here:
http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76_98.tar.gz
MD5 (PAR-0.76_98.tar.gz) = 9c4d2500e6aee994b5c6ad5757fd6873
A partial ChangeLog is listed below.
I'd like to invite all current PAR users with a C compiler to test this
prerelease, especially with Archive::Zip 1.09, and on dynamically-built
Perl versions.
The $0-truncating bug has not been fixed in this release.
I started to implement the "rename par.exe as basename(argv[0])" suggestion
(uncomment myldr/static.c line 97 to enable it), but my C skill is
really lacking; so, if someone on Windows with a C compiler can help me
getting it work, it'd be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
/Autrijus/
* New Features
- External Zlib is no longer required to run pp-generated binaries.
* Bug fixes
- The "bad signature" problem with newer Archive::Zip versions is fixed.
- App::Packer::Backend::PAR was misplaced into App/Packer/PAR.
- Signature tests were failing under new ExtUtils::MakeMaker versions.
- ActiveState's PPM building machine was having problem with PAR;
a ".pdb" entry in MANIFEST.SKIP is added to fix that.
- Some self-built PAR instances on Windows were failing due to
mismatching short and long pathnames.
* TODO before 0.77
- Implement Ned Konz's suggestion of writing out par.exe as
basename(argv[0]), in myldr/static.c.
- Merge new version of tkpp from Doug Gruber.
- Investigate and try to fix sporadic WinXP failures.
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