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Revision: 1.93
Committed: Sat Apr 4 15:26:10 2026 UTC (5 months, 1 week ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-1_5, HEAD
Changes since 1.92: +1 -0 lines
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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension App::Staticperl
2    
3 root 1.57 SHLIB_PATH hpux, .sl
4     LD_LIBRARY_PATH solaris, .so
5     LIBPATH aix .a(?)
6     LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32 and LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 .so solaris
7     LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH irix
8     LD_LIBRARY64_PATH irix
9     DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH darwin
10 root 1.53 TODO: nonstatic builds, make.aperl failure does not link in everything?
11 root 1.57 TODO-IMPORTANT: CPAN::MyConfig!
12 root 1.67 TODO: tell people that staticperl perl *PL;make/make install is not enough normally.
13 root 1.68 TODO: document hooks
14 root 1.64
15 root 1.72 TODO: -Ixxx overweritten during startzup for custom perl binaries
16    
17 root 1.86 TODO: maybe make extutilc::cbuilder return value dynamic and have some kind of app-preferences?
18 root 1.82 TODO: bundle "<<<<" error => endless loop
19 root 1.87 TODO: keepnl option of some kind
20 root 1.93
21 root 1.92 1.5 Sat 04 Apr 2026 04:14:46 CEST
22 root 1.86 - implement lzf compression for library files, use "--compress none"
23     to disable.
24 root 1.92 - new subcommands instdist and insturl.
25 root 1.88 - switch default mirrors to https.
26     - add backpan to urrlist by default, so its easier to install older, working,
27     modules such as JSTOWE/TermReadKey-2.33.tar.gz
28 root 1.86 - configure pushy_https by default, as this extraordinarily stupidly
29 root 1.83 named option apparently breaks urllist completely.
30 root 1.84 - new hook: postcpanconfig.
31 root 1.85 - more aggreessively strip consecutive whitespace when using PPI.
32     - avoid idiotic "Reverse operator" warning when stripping with PPI.
33 root 1.86 - change default compression for perl tarballs to gzip, as upstream
34     keeps changing compression algorithms and gzip is the only stable one.
35 root 1.88 - unset some more environment variables to reduce interference.
36 root 1.89 - implement (partial and so farr undocumented --keepnl mode for ppi stirpping).
37 root 1.90 - when installing modules, try to install before AND after building perl, to
38     work around a perl bug where it would try to link against both installed
39     and just-built versions of a module, which seems to happen for dual-life moduöes
40     such as Encode.
41 root 1.92 - slightly more efficient download caching logic.
42     - fix a signed/unsigned newSVpvn parameter mismatch in the bundle.
43 root 1.90
44 root 1.82 1.46 Tue 15 Feb 2022 19:25:09 CET
45     - when building an app ("mkapp"), staticperl freed the argv too
46     early, which causes memory corruption when perl is later
47     assigning to $0.
48 root 1.81 - default CPAN recommends_policy/suggests_policy to off.
49 root 1.78 - new bundle args: --extra-cflags, --extra-ldflags and --extra-libs.
50 root 1.79 - fix CBuilder workaround to actually use PERL_CFLAGS not PERL_CFLASGS.
51     - minor cosmetic fixes.
52 root 1.78
53 root 1.77 1.45 Fri Oct 19 23:26:54 CEST 2018
54     - work around weird, buggy and broken stacksize check in newer Storable.
55     - create a framework for patching modules before make, thanks to Storable.
56     - try to work around install phase changing thw cwd,m so instsrc . no
57     longer fails because the install dependency changed the cwd.
58 root 1.76 - restore PL_origfilename and $0 to argv[0] before running bootstrap,
59     so the script name is no longer '-e' in error messages and so on.
60 root 1.74 - PERL_VERSION can now be a full URL or a directory.
61 root 1.73 - default to stableperl.
62 root 1.75 - add -Uversiononly to Configure args, as it's required by staticperl, and
63     one of the many unrelated things usedevel needlessly toggles.
64 root 1.73
65 root 1.71 1.44 Tue Jul 7 01:32:49 CEST 2015
66 root 1.64 - added Net::SSLeay hint, tested and improved by gleeco.
67 root 1.65 - fix quoting bug, avoid failure when EXTRA_MODULES contains spaces.
68 root 1.67 - enable build_requires_install_policy to work around one of the myriad
69 root 1.66 bugs in Module::Build.
70     - support concurrent access to the DLCACHE.
71 root 1.67 - install ExtUtils::CBuilder early, to improve chances of succeeding
72     slightly by having a newer version.
73 root 1.68 - patch ExtUtils::CBuilder::Base::have_compiler to always return
74     false, as ExtUtils::CBuilder blindly builds shared libs on systems
75     that cannot build shared libs and modules relying on it usually
76     fail for similar reasons.
77 root 1.67 - set LD/CC/LDFLAGS/CFLAGS to work around the endlessly buggy ExtUtils::CBuilder,
78     which incidentally is a byproduct (read: garbage) of Module::Build.
79     - be more aggressive about post-install patching, to avoid stuff falling
80     through the cracks.
81 root 1.69 - override MAP_TARGET for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, as some modules
82     provide their own name for the perl binary (which is not what we want).
83 root 1.70 - update DynaLoader patch for current ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
84 root 1.59
85 root 1.63 1.43 Wed Apr 18 14:38:43 CEST 2012
86     - remove the temporary MakeMaker patch, as either Pod::Parser or
87     MakeMaker have been fixed. Also make sure we pull MakeMaker
88     from CPAN. This might fix the CPAN dependency problems with
89     newer perl versions (at least 5.14.2).
90 root 1.62 - staticperl mkperl or mkapp didn't clean up temporary files.
91     - PPI::XS seems to be broken, directly depend on PPI.
92    
93 root 1.61 1.42 Mon Mar 5 08:16:02 CET 2012
94     - actually, really do it.
95    
96 root 1.60 1.41 Mon Mar 5 08:14:11 CET 2012
97     - temporarily patch ExtUtils::MakeMaker because newer versions
98     break Pod::Parser.
99    
100 root 1.59 1.4 Mon Jul 18 09:33:48 CEST 2011
101 root 1.55 - new configuration variable DLCACHE to avoid repeated downloads.
102 root 1.59 - the static:: namespace was wrongly documented as sttaicperl::.
103     - provide no compiler flags apart from -Os anymore by default.
104 root 1.56 - staticperl clean now removes all build files (src/).
105 root 1.54 - staticperl no longer sets EV_EXTRA_DEFS or CORO_INTERFACE.
106 root 1.55 - patch ExtUtils::Miniperl to always include DynaLoader, otherwise
107     static linking disables later dynamic linking and vice versa.
108 root 1.56 - (experimental) do not build a new perl unless a static archive
109     was created, to make -Dusedl faster.
110     - actually fail when not being able to install some modules from CPAN.
111     - speed up installing modules from CPAN if multiple modules have
112     been specified.
113 root 1.59 - weed out duplicated libraries form the beginning, not the end.
114 root 1.56 - set shell variable $PERL to full path to perl binary
115     when running staticperl cpan, which is handy for subshells.
116     - properly define "boot_DynaLoader" when DynaLoader is available.
117     - fix a memleak in static::list.
118 root 1.59 - mkbundle can now bundle dynamic objects for perl extensions
119 root 1.57 (--allow-dynamic).
120     - lots of windows workarounds/bugfixes.
121 root 1.53
122 root 1.52 1.31 Tue Jun 14 09:03:59 CEST 2011
123     - pause is more tricky than expected - rename fake.pm to Staticperl.pm.
124     - improved documentation a bit.
125    
126 root 1.51 1.3 Tue May 10 19:39:39 CEST 2011
127     - the nothing-to-see-except-a-version-bump release.
128     - package a fake.pm file to (maybe!) get CPAN to allocate namespace
129     for us, as people have real trouble to install the distribution.
130    
131 root 1.49 1.22 Sun May 1 11:28:54 CEST 2011
132 root 1.47 - prepend staticperl binary install path to PATH when running any
133     commands - will help many broken modules and scripts (e.g. those
134     using the broken #!env perl hack), but will also make life easier
135     for "staticperl cpan / look" users.
136 root 1.46 - use empty PERL_OPTIMIZE flags in testsuite for higher portability.
137 root 1.48 - unset PERL_CORE and PERL_MB_OPT variables because
138 root 1.47 these modules are part of perl - set them in your staticperlrc
139     instead.
140 root 1.48 - disable MAN1PODS and MAN3PODS in PERL_MM_OPT, to make Glib, Cairo,
141     Pango and Gtk2 build.
142     - patch ExtUtils::MM_Unix to search for static archives in blib more
143     often, as it doesn't detect Pango as being an XS module (which
144     is a bug in Pango).
145     - create a patch helper (SP-patch-postinstall) that is executed
146     after perl and eahc module install to do some important patches.
147     - rename the cpan-make-inmstall helper to SP-make-install-make.
148     - write mkbundle to bin/SP-mkbundle.
149     - new "staticperl perl" command.
150 root 1.50 - updated small/bigperl to 5.12.3.
151 root 1.46
152 root 1.45 1.21 Fri Mar 18 19:21:15 CET 2011
153     - ok, irix tar has no working -f and freebsd tar goes to a device
154     by default, so screw irix and go with freebsd.
155     - some bloke thought it's cool to force dynamic linking on darwin.
156     force as in "either you enable it, or the resulting build will be
157     forcefully broken". proves that whoever uses darwin deserves it.
158     anyway, we now patch away the idiocy in the hints file.
159     - for better portability, do not supply -Wl,--no-gc-sections
160     -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition, but sitll patch -Wl,--no-gc...
161     - new hook: patchconfig.
162    
163 root 1.44 1.2 Mon Mar 14 00:11:15 CET 2011
164     - patch CPAN::HandleConfig as there seems to be no other way to
165     keep it from clobbering the users MyConfig.pm accidentally.
166     - call cpan internally in a way so it picks up only our MyConfig.pm,
167     for extra safety and the initial calls before patching.
168     - set default cpan "installer" to EUMM, and MB is too broken
169     (it fails to build extensions statically).
170 root 1.43 - use "tar x" only to accomodate irix (and possibly other systems).
171    
172 root 1.42 1.11 Tue Mar 8 18:37:00 CET 2011
173 root 1.41 - no longer create bundle variable names from md5(data),
174     as it is no longer useful.
175 root 1.42 - fix output shortening in testsuite.
176 root 1.41
177 root 1.40 1.1 Thu Feb 24 07:20:22 CET 2011
178     - use a better -M syntax.
179 root 1.38 - the one-arg form of add/binadd was broken.
180     - --add and --binadd now use the file as alias if the alias is missing.
181 root 1.36 - embeddable bundle files were broken because "args"
182 root 1.32 was used before defined.
183     - mkapp now actually passes arguments to the boot script.
184 root 1.30 - more cpan-testers workarounds :/.
185 root 1.40 - implement an ignore-env option for mkbundle.
186 root 1.32 - use, not just require, modules when tracing their dependencies.
187 root 1.33 - support an optional xs_init argument to staticperl_init, which
188     can be 0 (and is then ignored).
189 root 1.34 - reduce PERL_ARENA_SIZE to something more reasonable for perl 5.12.
190 root 1.39 - use perl 5.12.3 by default.
191     - enable debug symbols by default (but not the dreaded -DDEBUGGING).
192 root 1.30
193 root 1.29 1.0 Mon Jan 10 15:13:19 CET 2011
194     - specify -Uinstallusrbinperl in configure to avoid creating
195     /usr/bin/perl.
196     - try to work around the totally broken /bin/sh on solaris
197     (only in the testsuite).
198 root 1.26 - use curl -f instead of just curl.
199     - prefer curl over wget again, as cpan seems to do so.
200     - clarify license.
201    
202 root 1.25 0.92 Wed Dec 22 02:09:19 CET 2010
203     - major rework of the PHASE 2 documentation section, hopefully
204     it's now more clear, more useful, more sexy.
205     - renamed --usepacklist to --usepacklists (--usepacklist still
206     supported as abbreviation).
207 root 1.24 - "properly" get rid of SITELIB paths, avoid using -U compiler flags
208 root 1.25 (which didn't even do anything...).
209     - avoid export var=value syntax for non-unix shells (solaris...).
210     - better output in the error case from the testsuite.
211 root 1.20
212 root 1.23 0.912 Wed Dec 15 01:14:26 CET 2010
213     - print a longer and hopefully useful message when Configure fails.
214     - remove PERL_CPPFLAGS, replace with PERL_CCFLAGS, which get appended
215     tot he ccflags, instead of overriding them.
216     - introduce PERL_CC.
217 root 1.22 - work around *bsd stupidity again, where even root can't replace
218     files with mv :/.
219 root 1.23 - stop command processing when a command fails (e.g. staticperl mkperl
220     will stop if the install step fails).
221     - let perl do most configuration when running make test, to increase
222     chances of success.
223 root 1.1
224 root 1.18 0.911 Sat Dec 11 16:50:41 CET 2010
225     - argl, testsuite had a duplicated test.
226     - use -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition for better portability.
227    
228 root 1.17 0.91 Fri Dec 10 22:13:43 CET 2010
229     - add testsuite (yeah, should be optional - send patches).
230 root 1.16 - started to maintain two demo builds: bigperl and smallperl,
231     on http://staticperl.schmorp.de.
232 root 1.13 - implemented --staticlib option.
233 root 1.14 - special unicore/ compression (but much more could be done,
234     especially for the uncompressed case).
235     - implemented a strip cache, speeding up ppi stripping enourmously.
236     - implemented --include/--exclude options.
237 root 1.15 - try to port the tar call to freebsd (reported and analyzed
238     by Thomas Linden).
239 root 1.16 - (hopefully) better meaning of verbose levels.
240     - avoid deadlocking in --eval (unlikely, but possible).
241     - implement $STATICPERLRC.
242     - do all option AND bundle file processing with Getopt::Long,
243     to make maintenance easier.
244 root 1.13
245 root 1.11 0.9 Wed Dec 8 23:26:48 CET 2010
246 root 1.10 - support AutoLoader'ed functions with prototypes.
247 root 1.11 - new mkapp / --app option for mkbundle, to create
248     standalone applications.
249 root 1.10
250 root 1.9 0.2 Tue Dec 7 21:50:07 CET 2010
251 root 1.7 - make it work as non-root user.
252 root 1.9 - make module install/linking much more robust against
253     build and link failures, i.e. try to only install
254     the module when it was actualyl built successfully.
255 root 1.8 - split "install" phase into perl install and module
256     install, so fixing your postinstall hook takes less time.
257     - change make clean to delete the sources dir.
258     - add preconfigure hook.
259 root 1.7
260 root 1.6 0.1 Tue Dec 7 10:23:43 CET 2010
261     - initial release.
262    
263     0.0 Mon Dec 6 10:44:38 CET 2010
264 root 1.1 - cloned from Convert::Scalar.
265