Upstream changes:
6.56 Thu Dec 17 14:02:14 PST 2009
* Stable release of 6.55_03
6.55_03 Fri Dec 4 23:08:02 PDT 2009
Bug Fixes
* BUILD_REQUIRES will not be used when generating ppd, PRINT_PREREQ and
'requires' section of META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)
OS/2
* Better compatibility with miniperl [rt.cpan.org 48534] (Ilya Zakharevich)
Win32
* mingw64 support (Sisyphus)
* Fixed a typo causing bad Makefiles for Visual C++ users (Steve Hay)
New Features
* The new "package NAME VERSION" syntax from 5.11 is now supported by
parse_version() and thus VERSION_FROM. The first version declaration,
package or $VERSION, is used. (David Golden)
6.55_02 Wed Aug 5 00:36:36 PDT 2009
Feature Changes
* PREFIX now applies to relative directories. This is a change since
6.20 when they were ignored. Its necessary for relocatable Perls.
VMS
* Refactoring of "MakeMaker Parameters" section in 6.55_01 broke VMS.
(Craig Berry)
6.55_01 Tue Jul 14 15:53:30 PDT 2009
Test Fixes
* The tests got a bit overzealous and removed the LIB environment variable
while is necessary for some compilers to work. [rt.cpan.org 47722]
(Jan Dubois)
* Another fix for arch_check() on Windows changing how we normalize
long and short filenames. [rt.cpan.org 47723] (Jan Dubois)
New Features
* BUILD_REQUIRES is added, similar to PREREQ_PM but for modules which
are necessary to build, but not run, your module. (Alexandr Ciornii)
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