Module-Build 0.21

on Perl CPAN

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]