Module-Build 0.18_03

on Perl CPAN

Added support for the 'install_path' parameter, which allows custom
specification of where things should be installed. This is a major
improvement to Module::Build's functionality.

Command-line arguments may now either be specified using the syntax
'--foo foovalue' as well as the traditional syntax 'foo=foovalue'.
The former is often more convenient for shell tab-completion when
the value is a filename (as in 'Build test --test_files t/basic.t').

Command-line arguments may now include non-named parameters, which
make some actions more natural. For instance, the 'diff' action
may now be invoked as 'Build diff -u' rather than as
'Build diff flags=-u'.

Pass-through Makefile.PLs now convert unknown Makefile.PL
parameters to lower-case and hand them to Build.PL, rather than
ignoring them. This means we only have to account for the
differences in the interface, not the entire interface, in
translating parameters.

We now issue a warning & don't proceed if asked to make a distdir
and there's no MANIFEST or it's empty.

We now install scripts by default to $Config{installsitebin}
instead of $Config{installscript}. Neither is a great choice, but
the former is likely to be [analogous to] /usr/local/bin, and the
latter is likely to be [something like] /usr/bin . If/when there's
a $Config{installsitescript}, we'll start using that automatically.

Moved INSTALL to INSTALL.txt to increase compatibility with various
odd versions of 'make' during 'make install' on case-insensitive
filesystems (like nmake on Win32, often). Only affects the
Makefile compatibility layer. [reported by Andrew Savige]

Module::Build->known_actions() now works as a class method.

We now use the correct perl interpreter (via
Module::Build->find_perl_interpreter) in pass-through makefiles.

Pass-through makefiles now list each action individually rather
than using a ".DEFAULT" catch-all. This improves compatibility
with 'nmake' on Win32, and probably some other less common 'make'
dialects. [Andrew Savige]

We're now more aggressive about testing the pass-through makefiles,
e.g. making sure they can run 'all' and 'test' targets, and making
sure the Makefile itself actually exists.