Autoperl revision history
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1.26  July 13th, 2005

* For every argument passed on the command line of ./configure, create
  a corresponding Makefile variable.

* Implement $(SHAREDSTATEDIR) and rename $(statedir) to $(localstatedir).
  This is the GNU way, but who really uses /usr/local/var??

* In ./configure, process @ARGV before parsing Makefile.am so that 

* New C preprocessor-compatible #include directive

* When parsing Makefile targets, don't choke when a rule contains some
  leading whitespace before the tab.

* The manual (doc/manual.html) has been updated to reflect changes up 
  to the current version.

* Changed $(TOPDIR) and $(DISTDIR) to be absolute paths;
  this may cause regressions

1.25 June 24th, 2005

* Fixed the following bugs:
    [ 1225983 ] copyright notice stops in 2004
    [ 1225982 ] internal configure version stuck at 1.10
    [ 1225988 ] sysconfdir definition does not match documentation
    [ 1226533 ] variables are not propagated to config.h in subdirectories
    [ 1225984 ] sbin_PROGRAMS variable corruption

* Fixed problems parsing _ARG and _ARG_HELP that caused the regression
  tests '8 - custom arguments (default)' and '9 - custom arguments (override)'
  to fail.

* Fixed: `./configure --without-dependency-tracking' now works and 
  is documented in the --help page

* Permit config.h to be in a parent directory, and expand statements 
  like 'require "../config.h"' in source files.

* Force variables in %ap::config to be lower-case and replace
  dashes with underscores

* Add accessor methods so $ap::config{sbindir} could be referenced
  as &ap::sbindir

* The linker removes the __END__ marker and any additional lines
  from the output file. 

* When generating the 'make dist' target, include 'README.*'

* Running `./configure --verbose' prints to STDOUT instead of STDERR
 
* The 'make test' target no longer uses Test::Harness; this means the 
  full name of each test is printed.

* New: `./configure --quiet' will only print error messages to the screen. 


1.24 June 2nd, 2005

* Minor infrastructure changes to support the migration to SourceForge.net

* Preserve comments inside of Makefile.am rules.

* Fix 'make install' target; installation paths were not completely expanded.


1.23 May 30th 2005

* Fix the linker to import config.h (for real this time)

* When linking, change the shebang line to read `#!/usr/bin/env perl'

* Custom arguments can be overridden via ./configure 


1.22 May 30th 2005

* In get_package_from_source(), don't be so strict about filename matching.


1.21 May 29th 2005

* Custom arguments (foo_ARG) are now exported to config.h

* The linker can now handle input files in deeply nested subdirectories.

* Fix a type mismatch and other errors in run_linker().

* Display help text for custom args when ./configure --help is invoked

* Dereference variables using the @VARIABLE@ syntax in Makefile.am
  to simulate Autoconf processing.

* Implement AC_CONFIG_FILES as a Makefile.am variable. This emulates
  Autoconf's parsing of files with the .in extension to substitute 
  references to @VARIABLE@ with the contents of ${VARIABLE}.
  (see &Autoperl::Parser::ac_parse)

* Allow Makefile targets to have numbers in their names.


1.20 May 17th 2005

* Perform recursive variable expansion in config.h                
* Each SUBDIR generates it's own config.h instead of copying the toplevel one.
* Remove cgidir, srcdir, and htmldir from the standard installation paths.
* Add destdir as a ./configure option
* Define pkgdatadir as ${datadir}/{$program}
* Remove trailing whitespace from Makefile.am variable definitions

1.10 May 15th 2005

* Rewrote parse_makefile_am() to handle embedded Perl code in Makefile.am
* Rewrote Autoperl::Linker to handle Exporter dependency requirements. 
* User-defined variables in Makefile.am are exported via %ap::config
* Autoperl::Logger exports 'debug','critical','notice','warning'
* More stuff is logged to config.log at configure time.
* Always include aplocal.inc in 'make dist' tarball
* The hooks in aplocal.inc are actually executed now.
* t/ directory added to contain Autoperl test suite
* Fixed 'make test' target to chdir(1) into t/ before running tests

1.02 May 3rd 2005

* Check $ARGV before running check_host() to avoid unnecessary method call
* Fix $confdir and $sysconfdir variable definitions
* Implement the man_MANS macro 
* Allow pre-compressed manpages in the _MANS variables
* Implemented Makefile.am target 'uninstall-hook'
* Add missing trailing backslash to install_all() in make_package() 
* Fixed the pkgdata_DATA and pkgdata_DOCS variables
* Reload config.h during 'make package' execution
* Regenerate config.h in all project SUBDIRS, not just the top level

1.01 April 27th 2005

* Fix generator error for custom arguments in config.h

1.0 April 24th 2005

* Always use the -p option with install-sh to preserve the executable bit.
* Implemented pkgdata_DOCS macro
* Implemented AC_CHECK_PROG macro
* New autoperl(1) option '--package' generates binary packages
* New parser: parse_package_in()
* Linker reenabled 
* Eliminate config.sub and moved functionality to ./configure
* Deleted configure.in and moved functionality into Makefile.am

0.9.3  April 17th 2005

* Added AP_CUSTOM_ARG macro
* parse_configure_in() now has a real parser
* fixed generate_synthetic_targets() missing dependencies for *-local
* Fixed generation of $(PKGDATADIR) 
* Always remove trailing slashes and doubleslashes from installation paths
* autoperl --init now creates config.sub and install-sh
* Linker is now disabled totally
* Internal use of 'require()' changed to 'use()'
* Added install-sh, a Perl replacement for BSD install
* install-sh parses perl apps and modules and substitutes config.h values
* Imported Autoperl/Packager.pm from metaconf; mostly dead code
* Added support for pre- and post- hooks for all build stages via aplocal.inc
* ap::config is now a hash instead of a hashref
* all keys of %ap::config have accessor methods
* Implemented 'make uninstall' target
* Improved 'make test' target now tries to compile all source code modules
* Experimental 'build package' targets for Debian and OpenBSD

0.9.2  April 9th 2005

* Ported to OpenBSD 3.6 by removing GNUisms from the Makefile generator
* Fixed: failure inside a recursive make(1) is ignored
* Implemented: install-data-hook, install-exec-hook
* Implemented: SYSCONFDIR
* Implemented: bin_SCRIPTS, sbin_SCRIPTS
* Added basic support for building C programs

0.9.1  April 3nd 2005

* Allow building of source code in the toplevel project directory
* Allow underscores in custom Makefile.am target names
* Allow bin_PROGRAMS and sbin_PROGRAMS without {x}_SOURCES
* Implement the pkgdata_DATA macro
* Add a configure.in macro AP_CHECK_DEPENDS to force explicit dependency checks 
* Add '--htmldir' and '--cgidir' installation directories
* Improved check_depends() can recursively scan a directory
* Allow unlimited recursive Makefile.am processing through SUBDIRS


0.9  April 2nd 2005

* Renamed 'config.sub' to 'Autoperl.pm' and install into @includedir@
* `autoperl --init` now symlinks @includedir@/Autoperl.pm to config.sub
* Implement the include_HEADERS macro
* Set $(includedir) to /usr/local/lib/site_perl
* Implemented the 'make test' target
* We now create a 'provides' list to avoid check_depends() false negative
* The entire Autoperl::Parser tree is saved in config.in and used by configure
* Implemented '--disable-dependency-tracking'
* Disabled the compilation stage because of module interdependencies

0.8  March 30th 2005

* More intelligent parser can handle extra whitespace and multiline declarations
* Fixed custom Makefile target generation
* Thanks to Jeff Fulmer for reporting several bugs in 0.07
* Always try to create Makefiles in the SUBDIRS path
* Fix email address munging in configure.in
* Docfix: suggest 'autoperl --init' instead of 'autoperl --scan'

0.7  March 29th 2005 

* split package into multiple modules (generator, parser, etc.)
* added support for SUBDIRS
* added preliminary 'make package' data structures
* added manpage installation capability
* added config.h generation
* added linker emulation to generate perl pseudo-binaries
* changed Makefile.am variables bin_PROGRAMS and foo_SOURCES to match Automake
* much more documentation in doc/

0.6  March 25th 2005 

* switched from ExtUtils::MakeMaker to automake
* removed dist-exclude functionality; all files must be explicitly
included.
* removed all automatically exported symbols and methods
* merged a separate development branch from 0.4, so 0.5 may have been
lost

0.5  Sat Jun  7 22:02:09 EDT 2003 

* check_lib() and write_makefile() now scan lib/ directory for missing dependencies

0.4  Fri Jun  6 02:18:11 EDT 2003 

* improved subst_vars()
* fixed default installation targets
* Makefile automatically creates $(DESTDIR), $(BINDIR), etc., targets

0.3  Thu Jun  5 00:36:43 EDT 2003 

* added prog_perl()
* added subst_vars()

0.2  Mon Jun 2 15:51:56 EDT 2003 

* added is_linux(), is_freebsd(), etc.
* documentation added
* many new functions, API is almost finished

0.1  Sun May 11 23:00:39 2003 

* original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
	-X Autoperl