Revision history for Perl module Alien::Base.
0.027_01 Fri Feb 19, 2016
- Deprecate %p
- Require Alien::CMake 0.07 as a minimum when used as alien_bin_requires
for Alien::Base compatability
0.027 Thu Feb 4, 2016
- Production release identical to 0.026_02 release
0.026_02 Mon Feb 1, 2016
- Fix test bug introduced in 0.026_01 where t/builder.t
would fail on Windows if Alien::MSYS was not installed.
0.026_01 Mon Feb 1, 2016
- Added alien_env property to Alien::Base::ModuleBuild
- require HTTP::Tiny 0.044 for correct calculation of
relative URLs on may websites.
0.026 Fri Jan 22, 2016
- For http, use base URL from index request when downloading
files (plicease gh#150, gh#151)
0.025 Wed Jan 20, 2016
- Production release identical to 0.024_02 release
0.024_02 Mon Jan 18, 2016
- Silenced warnings that can happen when multiple .pc files are included
with a package (salva++ gh#148)
- Fixed bug where verbose diagnostic could cause false positives
and false negatives for system libraries (salva++ gh#147, plicease gh#149)
0.024_01 Tue Jan 12, 2016
- Use URI internally for improved support for GitHub as a source
(among others) (salva++ gh#144)
0.024 Thu Jan 7, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.023_01 release
0.023_01 Sat Jan 2, 2015
- Fixed a usually harmless but frequently annoying isssue where the
alien_install_commands were executed on every invocation of './Build',
'./Build test', and './Build install' instead of just once as is
needed. (plicease gh#141)
- Archive extraction can now be overridden with the alien_extract_archive
method in Alien::Base::ModuleBuild. (salva++ gh#142)
- Fixed bug with windows where using \ instead of / broke relocatable
installs. (plicease gh#139)
- Promoted _env_do_system a public method named alien_do_system
(salva++ gh#143)
0.023 Mon Sep 14, 2015
- Fixed typo in FAQ
- Updated FAQ Alien::gmake example to require Alien::gmake 0.11
- Otherwise a production release identical to the 0.22_01 release
0.022_01 Fri Jul 31, 2015
- Add support for ALIEN_INSTALL_TYPE environment variable
0.022 Mon Jul 20, 2015
- Correction for the section "How do I specify a minumum or exact version
requirement for packages that use pkg-config?" in the FAQ.
0.021_01 Wed Jul 15, 2015
- Added a default %{pkg_config} helper
- Fixed bug introduced in 0.016_01 where using --destdir or $ENV{DESTDIR}
would break the "./Build install" command.
0.021 Wed Jul 15, 2015
- Fixed bug where upgrading to 0.020 could break Alien modules installed
before the upgrade. You do not need to re-install your Alien modules,
just upgrade to Alien::Base 0.021.
0.020 Mon Jul 13, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.019_02 release
0.019_02 Wed Jul 8, 2015
- Fixed bug where alien_provides_* options were not being honored when the
system provided the library (plicease gh#131)
0.019_01 Mon Jul 6, 2015
- Improved documentation: added a FAQ at Alien::Base::FAQ
- Added helpers for source code builds see
Alien::Base#alien_helper
and
Alien::Base::ModuleBuild::API#alien_helper
for details
0.019 Fri Jun 5, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.018_02 release
0.018_02 Wed Jun 3, 2015
- Fix test suite for Cygwin
0.018_01 Tue May 26, 2015
- Added alien_arch option for non-homogeneous environments with shared @INC
(for example AFS) (plicease gh#119)
0.018 Tue May 26, 2015
- alien_stage_install is now on by default
(first production release for this to be the case)
0.017 Fri Apr 24, 2015
- Identical to 0.016_02 release, except alien_stage_install is
OFF by default (it was turned on for dev release 0.016_01,
and will be turned back on or after May 25).
0.016_02 Fri Apr 24, 2015
- Fix bug where ConfigData.pm was not updated after install to blib
(plicease gh#121)
0.016_01 Tue Apr 22, 2015
- alien_stage_install is now on by default
0.016 Tue Apr 22, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.015_03 release
0.015_03 Mon Apr 20, 2015
- Fixed bug related to absolute URL (polettix++ gh#116)
0.015_02 Fri Apr 17, 2015
- On OS X use install_name_tool to more reliably relocate dynamic libraries
on that platform (plicease gh#115)
0.015_01 Fri Apr 17, 2015
- Add alien_stage_install option for Alien::Base::ModuleBuild
see Alien::Base::ModuleBuild::API for details (plicease gh#114)
- alien_stage_install is default for PPM builds
0.015 Tue Mar 17, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.014_01 release
0.014_01 Fri Mar 13, 2015
- Generate config.site for autoconfigure source installs (plicease gh#113)
0.014 Feb 25, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.012_01 release
0.012_01 Feb 24, 2015
- Prefer and require PkgConfig.pm over pkg-config on 64 solaris
If pkg-config is used it will likely be giving flags for 32 bit libs
(plicease gh#110)
- Allow for relocation of Alien-Base based dists.
(plicease gh#111)
0.012 Feb 22, 2015
- Fix bug introduced in 0.011 where bin_dir dies when install_type=system
0.011 Feb 22, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.010_01 release
0.010_01 Feb 21, 2015
- When installed from source (install_type=share) if the share directory is
missing it is now a fatal exception. (plicease gh#108)
0.010 Feb 17, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.009_04 release
0.009_04 Feb 16, 2015
- Test fix for Microsoft Visual C++
0.009_03 Feb 15, 2015
- Improved FFI support
0.009_02 Feb 4, 2015
- Added diagnostics for Alien authors to help in diagnosing common configuration problems.
0.009_01 Jan 27, 2015
- Added './Build alien_fakebuild' command which shows you what would be executed without actually doing it (plicease gh#102)
0.009 Jan 27, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.008_01 release
0.008_01 Jan 26, 2015
- Allow multiple argument system calls for alien_build_commands and alien_install_commands (plicease gh#103)
0.008 Jan 16, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.007_01 release
0.007_01 Jan 12, 2015
- Add support for https repositories (zmughal++ gh#98)
0.007 Jan 8, 2015
- Production release identical to 0.006_03 release
0.006_03 Jan 8, 2015
- (optional) inline tests now require Acme::Alien::DontPanic 0.010
older versions do not do a link test, and we want that type of failure reported there, not here
0.006_02 Jan 7, 2015
- alien_bin_requires only become build_requires if Alien::Base::ModuleBuild determines
a source build is necessary (plicease gh#96)
- On MSWin32, Alien::MSYS is only injected a prereq if Alien::Base::ModuleBuild determines
a source build is necessary and autoconf is detected (plicease gh#96)
0.006_01 Nov 14, 2014
- Add support for Alien::Base dynamic_libs method for system installs
(previously only share install was supported)
This adds FFI::CheckLib as a prereq.
0.006 Oct 14, 2014
- Production release identical to 0.005_07 release
0.005_07 Oct 13, 2014
- commands are printed as they are executed for easier debugging (plicease gh#91)
- c_compiler_required repository option (default on)
0.005_06 Sep 30, 2014
- ExtUtils::Depends integration (plicease gh#85, gh#87)
- added alien_check_built_version method to Alien::Base::ModuleBuild (plicease gh#83, gh#89)
0.005_05 Sep 29, 2014
- fix regression in test on MSWin32 introduced in 0.005_04
0.005_04 Sep 28, 2014
- added alien_bin_requires property to Alien::Base::ModuleBuild (plicease gh#84, gh#88)
- added alien_msys property to Alien::Base::ModuleBuild (plicease gh#86)
0.005_03 Sep 23, 2014
- Inline tests requires Inline 0.56 (skip elsewise)
- Document Inline 0.56 or better required for Inline integration
0.005_02 Sep 23, 2014
- silence Archive::Extract deprecation warning
(we explicitly specify it as a prereq)
- remove accidental undeclared dependency on YAML introduced in 0.005_01
- fixed test failures introduced in 0.005_01
0.005_01 Sep 22, 2014
- fixes with static library detection when pkg-config is not available (plicease gh#79, gh#75)
- support for Inline 'with' (plicease gh#71, gh#77, gh#78)
- fix prereqs for Text::ParseWords and PkgConfig (plicease gh#73, gh#70)
0.005 Sep 11, 2014
- improved documentation coverage
0.004_05 Sep 09, 2014
- additional use / instead of \ on MSWin32 (plicease gh#68)
0.004_04 Sep 09, 2014
- fixed test error introduced in 0.004_03 expressed on cygwin (plicease gh#67)
0.004_03 Sep 09, 2014
- added support for destdir (plicease gh#65, gh#39)
- no longer attempt to dl_load static libraries, which aside from being
wrong was triggering a dialog warning in windows (plicease gh#64)
- use / instead of \ on MSWin32 (plicease gh#64)
0.004_02 Sep 04, 2014
- fixed MSWin32 specific bug introduced in 0.004_01 (plicease gh#59)
- use pure perl PkgConfig as an alternative to pkg-config if the latter
is not provided by operating system (plicease gh#61)
- support SHA-1/256 sum checks for downloads (vikasnkumar++ gh#33, gh#60)
0.004_01 Sep 04, 2014
- Libraries in the share directory are preferred over the system library
if that is what was used during install of the Alien module (plicease++ gh#22)
- Better handling of paths on Windows (zmughal++ gh#41)
- Fix test failure when pkg-config is not available (mohawk2++ gh#44)
- Support for autotools on Windows (MSWin32, but not cygwin) (plicease++ gh#46)
- Alien::MSYS will be injected as a build_requires on Windows if autotools is detected
- "%c" can now be used as a platform independent way of running autotool based
"configure" script
- The new default for build uses "%c" instead of "%pconfigure"
- Added property alien_isolate_dynamic which allows an Alien author to
avoid using dynamic libraries when building XS modules (plicease gh#51)
- Added dynamic_libs which returns a list of dynamic libraries (.dll, .so or
.dylib depending on platform) which can be used for FFI modules (see FFI::Raw)
(plicease gh#51)
- Added support for LWP as an alternative to HTTP::Tiny (preaction++ gh#24)
- Added support for content-disposition HTTP header to determine correct filename
and determine format from that (rsimoes++ gh#27)
- By default run autotools style configure scripts with --with-pic and add
alien_autoconf_with_pic property to allow disabling that (plicease gh#47)
0.004 Mar 5, 2014
- Added version token to the interpolator (MidLifeXis++)
- Fixed broken test (MidLifeXis++)
0.003 Mar 3, 2013
- Added 'blib scheme' detection logic
- Improves Mac/CPANtesters compatibility
- Controlled by ALIEN_BLIB env var
- ACTION_alien is now ACTION_alien_code
- Added ACTION_alien_install
- Fix manual .pc file bug
- Unbuffer STDOUT during ACTION_alien_*
0.002 Jan 27, 2013
- Added exact_filename key (giatorta++)
- Various bugfixes
0.001_003 Nov 29, 2012
- Improved pkg-config handling
- Added support for pkg-config key ${pcfiledir}
- Note: released from "experimental" branch
0.001_002 Nov 5, 2012
- Fixed some false positives in library detection
- Initialize temporary directories later
- Note: released from "experimental" branch
0.001_001 Nov 4, 2012
- Improved library detection
- Library files are added to packlist
- Note: released from "packlist" branch
0.001 Oct 9, 2012
- First Beta release!
- Documentation updated
- Better autogeneration of pkgconfig information (run4flat++)
0.000_022 Oct 8, 2012
- Major refactoring
- separate alien_{x}_commands where x = build, test, install
- removed mac specific code
- no longer test provisioning (it never worked anyway)
- directly allow library to install to final share_dir destination
- Moved Alien::DontPanic and Ford::Prefect to CPAN under Acme:: namespaces
0.000_021 Jul 25, 2012
- Some fixes for Mac, not sure its working yet
0.000_020 Jun 22, 2012
- Windows now passes the test suite (another cleanup error trapped)
- Begin overloading copy_if_modified for relocalizing dylibs on mac
(this is not working yet, this release is for windows testers)
0.000_019 Jun 21, 2012
- REALLY return to EU::LibBuilder (sorry for the noise)
0.000_018 Jun 21, 2012
- return to EU::LibBuilder
0.000_017 May 6, 2012
- typo **faceplant**
0.000_016 May 6, 2012
- remove dependence on EU::LibBuilder (Mac Bundle)
- t/zz-example.t shouldn't die on failure to cleanup
- Capture::Tiny needs some min version, using newest but perhaps less is ok
0.000_015 May 2, 2012
- interpolation %x is current Perl interpreter ($^X)
- platform specific bugfixes
0.000_014 May 1, 2012
- bugfix on dontpanic build chain (t/zz-example.t)
0.000_013 Apr 30, 2012
- libdontpanic build chain should be more x-plat. Uses EU::LibBuilder
0.000_012 Apr 29, 2012
- Simplified capture mechanism, this should prevent warnings from being suppressed
- Check the return status of alien_build, die if necessary
0.000_011 Apr 25, 2012
- I'm starting to believe the bug is in the dontpanic library build chain
- Die on more warnings in that build chain. This won't fix anything,
but may show where the true problem lies
0.000_010 Apr 24, 2012
- Prevent build process from cwd-ing from underneath us (hopefully)
0.000_009 Apr 24, 2012
- Note: Released from 'dlopen' branch
- Uses new dynamic loading mechanism via DynaLoader
0.000_008 Apr 11, 2012
- Prevent do_system from changing wd globally
0.000_007 Apr 4, 2012
- Don't rebuild library on repeated M::B::dispatch
- More bugfixes
0.000_006 Apr 3, 2012
- Yet anther bugfix(?) release
0.000_005 Apr 2, 2012
- Bugfix: A::B::PkgConfig _manual key shouldn't emit undef values
0.000_004 Apr 2, 2012
- Don't mangle LD_RUN_PATH if system installed
- Bugfix related to dreaded '"Can't call method "keyword" on an undefined value' error
- Made t/yy-system_installed.t smarter on picking a library for testing
0.000_003 Mar 18, 2012
- Require safer File::chdir
- Fixed "Bad File Descriptor" bug calling pkg-config
0.000_002 Mar 18, 2012
- More documentation
- Smarter in handling user-provided pkg-config data
- Generates pkg-config data from file structure if not defined
0.000_001 Mar 15, 2012
- Initial pre-alpha release, mostly to see CPANtesters results