Revision history for Perl module Alien::Base. 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