Revision history for Config-AutoConf
0.320 2021-06-25
- fix check_prog to not find directories (RT#132993), thanks
RJBS for reporting it again!
0.319 2020-09-29
- add optional extra_link_flags to search_libs
- fix check_prog to not find directories (RT#132993), thanks
RJBS for reporting
- include .perltidyrc to allow CPAN distribution downloaders
creating sane patches
- tooling improvements
0.318 2020-01-02
- use File::Slurper instead of File::Slurp::Tiny
- use cached pkg_config_prog, when available
- bump copyright notice
0.317 2018-06-08
- fix pkg_config_package_flags a bit more
- improve documentation of pkg_config_package_flags (fix
RT#125274 - thanks to Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>)
0.316 2018-04-12
- deal with pkg-config errors
- allow more search_lib others
0.315 2017-08-02
- add check_builtin
- perltidy code and add perltidy test (taken from MooX::Options)
- ensure for many check_* methods that externally controlled
ac_av_* environment variables are correctly passed into config.h
- fix check_dirent_header to cache proving header and proving
availability of 'DIR *' in such a header separately
0.314 2017-03-30
- _get_extra_linker_flags: add library dirs
0.313 2016-04-11
- release 0.312_001 without further changes
0.312_001 2016-04-07
- fix "check_member" test (RT#113271)
- update Copyright notice
- add license files
- improve compile_if_else/link_if_else by proving whether object
or binary file (compile result) exists
- fix some typos and other POD quirks
- Update README.md from updated POD
0.311 2015-03-17
- fix check_member(s) - patch by jddurand
0.310 2015-02-20
- Fix some typographical errors (by Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>)
- bump copyright timestamps
- add ribasushi to acknowledgements
- improve/correct meta information
- improve bundled POD
0.309 2014-12-31
- Remove the -arch removal for Mac OS X.
0.308 2014-12-26
- deal with "no C compiler available" properly (see RT#101121)
0.307 2014-12-14
- no Changes since 0.306_002
0.306_002 2014-12-08
- fix perl_api_link test for broken environments of some windows
testers
0.306_001 2014-12-01
- indent source as requested via issue#4 by Dave Rolsky
- consolidate check_... function on_*_true/false parameters
(Thanks to Peter Rabbitson for being sounding board)
- introduce more Perlish tests whether XS build is sane:
check_produce_xs_build, check_produce_loadable_xs_build
(Thanks to Peter Rabbitson for being sounding board)
- extensive refactoring with some API modifcations (warned
users via mail and issue#5)
0.305 2014-06-12
- skip compiler based tests when compiler seems weird
- add check_sane_xs composition as discussed on cpan-workers@
0.304 2014-06-01
- improve dealing with whitespaces in path's of programs
- reorder -lperl and $Config{perllibs} - let's see if that covers
all smokers
- some minor speed improvements (micro-optimization, but ...)
0.303 2014-05-29
- fix perl-api check for threaded perl's (by using XSUB.h)
- fix non-transient linking situations in perl link check
- cleanup temporary test dependecies
0.302 2014-05-27
- fix for snooping smoke targets
- deal with older ExtUtils::MakeMaker versions (can't handle multiple
authors)
- fix double "-lm" in negative test of libmath
0.301 2014-05-26
- Adding log-file output tee'ing as proposed by H.Merijn Brand and
rewrote tests against that API. Make perl.h compile test not TODO
for smokers.
0.300 2014-05-20
- add some code to tests to inspect the massive fail of 0.28
- include compiler invocation in log on failure
- add support for appending to logfiles (see t/ for examples)
- tidy Makefile.PL a bit and try to improve smoke results
0.29 2014-05-19
- make perl extension tests optional - add support to analyse
is scheduled for 0.300
0.28 2014-05-18
- fix perl 5.6 support
- improve existing prog checks when binaries with default ars are
returned
- honor environment variables as GNU Autoconf does
- add additional check_prog_... support fox lex and sed - most
other checks aren't suitable until a reasonable "postamble"
support is provided
- add support to prove whether perl development environment is
"sane" (as far that can be told)
- add checks to prove for pureperl build
0.27 2014-04-25
- fix broken Changes
- add some fixes for older Perls
0.26 2014-04-23
- Fix pkg-config test as it's intended (allow testing without
pkg-config binary)
- fix C::AC complains about unset results
0.25 2014-04-14
- Fix settings test that would complain with a duplicate plan
when no PkgConfig was present.
0.24 2014-04-11
- Fix lost dependencies during Makefile.PL update
- add even core dependencies to support older Perls
- adjust $LIBEXT/$EXEEXT initialization to support HP-UX/HPPA
0.23 2014-04-10
- bring back to 5.6 (Peter 'Ribasushi' Rabbitson)
- introduce pkg-config based checks (Jens 'Sno' Rehsack)
- fix spurious invocation issues (Jens 'Sno' Rehsack)
- Changes reformatted as per CPAN::Changes::Spec
0.22 2012-12-11
- Flag some more tests as TODO.
0.21 2012-12-02
- Flag -lm tests as 'TODO' as they might fail in some Windows
machines
0.20 2012-11-09
- Add stdint.h into check_default_headers
- Make POD tests author only.
0.19 2012-02-07
- Added new method, check_lm
0.18 2012-02-02
- msg_methods msg prefix can be configured.
- Added new methods: (Jens Rehsack)
check_alignof_type, check_alignof_types, check_sizeof_type,
check_sizeof_types, compute_int, lang_build_bool_test,
check_dirent_header, push_compiler_flags, push_includes,
push_libraries, push_library_paths, push_link_flags,
push_preprocess_flags.
0.17 2012-01-04
- Re-fixed tests that do not run in <= v5.010
0.17_02 2012-01-03
- Fixed tests that do not run on older Perl version.
0.17_01 2012-01-02
- New object oriented interface (Jens Rehsack)
- Added new methods: (Jens Rehsack)
cache_val, check_all_headers, check_cached, check_decl,
check_decls, check_default_headers, check_lib, check_member,
check_members, check_stdc_headers, check_type, check_types,
compile_if_else, define_var, lang_build_program, lang_call,
link_if_else, msg_checking, msg_error, msg_failure,
msg_notice, msg_result, msg_warn, pop_lang, push_lang,
search_libs, write_config_h
- check_headers rewritten (Jens Rehsack)
- Use proper 'extern "C"' code
0.16 2010-09-23
- Config::AutoConf::Linker moved to ExtUtils::LibBuilder.
0.15 2010-05-08
- Config::AutoConf::Linker more silent.
0.14 2010-02-14
- Added rewind to Linker.pm module. This code is still under heavy tests.
0.13 2009-06-02
- First stable release with code to detect how to build a C dynamic library.
0.12_3 2009-06-01
- Trying other way arround to change LD_LIBRARY_PATH under
t/04, that was failing under FreeBSD.
0.12_2 2009-05-19
- Added t/04 that was missing from MANIFEST
0.12_1 2009-05-18
- Added code to detect how to build a library.
It is a big, really big hack. Still not documented.
0.11 2009-01-09
- check_prog with better support for Windows machines.
0.10 2008-09-03
- Removed the tilde on my name, from Makefile.PL.
Was generating some weird results on VMS and Solaris.
0.09 2008-04-23
- Added 'check_headers?' methods to check for C heading files;
- fixed the deletion of .c files created by failing tests;
- Require perl 5.8.1 and ExtUtils::CBuilder 0.23
0.08 2008-03-29
- require a 5.8 Perl
0.07 2008-03-19
- re-factored some tests to make them Win-aware
0.06 2008-03-19
- added -quiet option to ExtUtils::CBuilder for less noise when
detecting things.
0.05 2008-03-18
- added 'check_prog_yacc' method to check for a yacc implementation
(see POD)
0.04 2008-03-18
- adapt to new ExtUtils::CBuilder API
0.03 2005-08-12
- Added 'check_file' and 'check_files' methods (kind of stupid methods)
0.02 2005-02-14
- Moved from ExtUtils:: to Config::
Previous releases
- Added 'check_prog' method to check for executable program
- Added 'check_progs' method to check for a list of programs
- Added 'check_prog_awk' method to check for an awk implementation
- Added 'check_prog_egrep' method to check for an egrep implementation
- first indexable version -- I need to use this module somewhere else;
- using ExtUtils::CBuilder to compile test;
- version correcting test for Mac OS-X (thanks, Michael Schwern);
- using Config module to get CC value and EXE extension;
- using ExtUtils::CBuilder (well take advantage of it later);