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Postings from May 2002
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.01.tar.gz
Mostly bleadperl sync ups. The one big change is WriteMakefile() now has
some rudimentary argument checking to warn about some of the most common
mistakes, like "MAN3PODS => ' '". Right now it just warns and replaces it
with an empty, but correct, value so it can try to continue rather than
just puking.
schwern@blackrider:/usr/local/src/CPAN/BerkeleyDB-0.18$ perl Makefile.PL
Parsing config.in...
Looks Good.
WARNING: MAN3PODS takes a hash reference not a string/number.
Please inform the author.
Writing Makefile for BerkeleyDB
It may be better to simply delete the errant attribute rather than putting
an empty value in it's place, dunno. I don't want to invest too much time
in this.
There's still two serious, open bugs, but I need to get a version out for
Jarkko. One is a combination of large numbers of .pm files (such as in
bioperl) and Unixen with short maximum shell command lengths (IRIX). See
RT#667.
The other is the hard-coded list of core perl header files in MM_Unix.
They're set for 5.6/5.8 and this causes problems when building XS with
5.5.3. This will need to be made into a set of header files for each
version, or perhaps just look in the $(PERL_INC) directory and build it
dynamically. See RT#693.
6.01 Thu May 30 14:48:57 EDT 2002
- MacOS Classic fixes from Pudge: recursive make repair,
post_initialize() now used, DEFINE & INC work with relative paths,
removed dead hybrid method/function call code.
* WriteMakefile now a bit more tolerant of wrong arguments, it will
warn and try to soldier on rather than just vomiting.
- Netware whitespace nits (bleadperl@16811)
- Netware Perl version number tag when building dynamic libraries
needs to match the current perl version instead of being hard coded
(a mutation of bleadperl@16851)
- OS/2 bug in TEST_F target found by John Poltorak (bleadperl@16839)
- README in 6.00 still declared this as alpha.
6.00 Sat May 25 17:14:09 EDT 2002
- VMS 8-level limit test tweak (bleadperl@16764)
* Here goes nothing.
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