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Module-Build-0.21
River stage five • 4486 direct dependents • 17571 total dependents
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Changes for version 0.21

  • Added a have_c_compiler() method.
  • Added documentation for the requires(), recommends(), build_requires(), and conflicts() methods.
  • On Unix platforms, we now create the "Build" script with a #! line matching the perl interpreter that was used to invoke the Build.PL script, rather than whatever is in $Config{startperl}. This avoids a potential warning about the interpreters not matching. [Spotted by Ken Y. Clark]
  • The Unix version now uses the safer multi-argument form of system() when building distribution tarballs.
  • Added a regression test for the 'dist' action to the t/runthrough.t test.
  • Fixed a problem with File::Spec usage when creating the names of 'libdoc' manual pages - the code wasn't dealing with the volume or file portions correctly on certain platforms.
  • When creating the names of the 'libdoc' manual pages, we no longer assume that pods are under the hard-coded paths 'blib/lib' or 'blib/arch'.
  • Fixed a crashing bug that could sometimes occur when the distribution contained no 'lib' directory. [Chris Dolan]
  • Fixed a crashing bug that happened when the user had .PL files in the lib/ directory and didn't explicitly name them in a hash reference to the new() constructor. [Chris Reinhardt, bug #4036]
  • .PL files are now passed the names of their target file(s) on the command line when they run.
  • When YAML.pm wasn't installed, t/runthrough.t wasn't properly skipping some tests that required YAML. This is now fixed.
    • Stephen J. Smith
  • Added documentation for the dist_version() and dist_name() methods. [Spotted by Johan Vromans]
  • Existing values in $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} are now respected and not squashed when we run the 'test' action. [Paul Johnson]
  • On cygwin, the separator string for manual page names has been set to '.'. Previously it was '::', inherited from Unix. [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
  • Avoid a warning when Build.PL is run (i.e. when the new() method is called) and no MANIFEST file exists. [Michael Schwern and Kevin Ruscoe]
  • Added documentation for the 'code' and 'docs' actions. [Steve Purkis and Mark Stosberg]
  • The internal method compile_support_files() has been renamed to process_support_files() in order to make it consistent with other processing methods. Note that it was never documented using the old name. It's still not documented, actually. Maybe later.
  • Skip the 'write' pseudo-entry in the 'diff' action's installation map. [Chris Dolan]
  • Fixed a bug in which notes() set in the Build.PL before create_build_script() was called would get lost unless more notes() were also set afterwards. [Spotted by Dave Rolsky]
  • The process of building elements of the distribution is now driven by a list of build elements, paving the way for letting people add their own types of build elements in future versions of Module::Build (or in the current version with some difficulty).
  • Fixed some linking errors on Cygwin. [Randy Sims, Terrence Brannon]
  • Fixed a line-ending problem with detecting the dist_abstract properly on Cygwin. [Randy Sims]
  • Fixed a problem with signatures that occurred if 'distsign' was called before 'distdir' - the signature would be generated twice.
  • Added a 'create_readme' parameter to new(), which will use Pod::Text to generate a README from the main (dist_version_from) module file during the 'distdir' action.
  • We now refuse to run the 'Build' script if it was created using a different version of Module::Build. This has caused a couple of nasty bugs in the past, I don't want to know what it would cause in the future.
  • Documentation for do_system() has been added. [Dave Rolsky]
  • run_perl_script() is now available as a class method, though it will need to (re-)find the perl interpreter in this case.
  • Added a new_from_context() method that authors of automated tools like CPANPLUS and CPAN can use instead of running all tasks as sub-processes. We also use it in the regression tests for Module::Build itself. ** Note that this method is currently undocumented because its name may change in the future. **
  • When signing distributions with Module::Signature, we now automatically add the SIGNATURE file to the MANIFEST, avoiding an unpleasant chicken/egg problem for the module author.
    • unpleasantness spotted by sungo
  • In Module::Build::Compat, added support for the 'verbose' parameter to Makefile.PL [spotted by Soren Andersen, fixed by Michael Schwern]
  • The Module::Build distribution now has a cryptographic 'SIGNATURE' file created by Module::Signature.
  • Added proper documentation for the subclass() method. [spotted by Jonathan Steinert]
  • Worked around a Config.pm bug in Red Hat 9 which prevented man pages from being installed in the correct places. [spotted by Ville Skytta]
  • Fixed a Module::Build::Compat bug in which setting INSTALLDIRS caused a crash. [spotted by Ilya Martynov]

Modules

Module::Build
Build and install Perl modules
Module::Build::Base
Default methods for Module::Build
Module::Build::Compat
Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Module::Build::Cookbook
Examples of Module::Build Usage
Module::Build::PPMMaker
Perl Package Manager file creation
Module::Build::Platform::Amiga
Builder class for Amiga platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Default
Stub class for unknown platforms
Module::Build::Platform::EBCDIC
Builder class for EBCDIC platforms
Module::Build::Platform::MPEiX
Builder class for MPEiX platforms
Module::Build::Platform::MacOS
Builder class for MacOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::RiscOS
Builder class for RiscOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Unix
Builder class for Unix platforms
Module::Build::Platform::VMS
Builder class for VMS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::VOS
Builder class for VOS platforms
Module::Build::Platform::Windows
Builder class for Windows platforms
Module::Build::Platform::cygwin
Builder class for Cygwin platform
Module::Build::Platform::darwin
Builder class for Mac OS X platform

Provides

Module::Build::Platform::Windows::BCC
in lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm
Module::Build::Platform::Windows::GCC
in lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm
Module::Build::Platform::Windows::MSVC
in lib/Module/Build/Platform/Windows.pm

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