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authorChip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>1999-04-26 23:03:00 +0000
committerTodd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net>2019-10-19 07:03:09 -0500
commit8a36d381e4fad7ec3e3fdfe11c88a098c0cbbbb0 (patch)
tree1ed632a4ef3e86c4e3c8747eebfade182dea8053
parent9676aaaca191ddd1a573201f615b876685e74b2c (diff)
downloadperl-8a36d381e4fad7ec3e3fdfe11c88a098c0cbbbb0.tar.gz
Update Changes and patchlevel.h for maint trial 9.
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.004/perl@3277
-rw-r--r--Changes170
-rw-r--r--patchlevel.h2
2 files changed, 162 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 8d4ee21507..a47291bc25 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ Version 5.004_05 Maintenance release 5 for 5.004
HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE
Better security
- - tainting bugs fixed.
- - "perl -e" no longer uses a temporary file.
+ - Tainting bugs fixed.
+ - Temporary file not created for "perl -e".
Better documentation
- - many significant updates and clarifications.
+ - Many significant updates and clarifications.
Better performance
- - many improvements including a very fast/safe built-in qsort.
+ - Many improvements including a very fast/safe built-in qsort.
Better perl portability
- - builds more easily on more systems.
+ - Easier builds on more systems.
Better script portability
- Scripts with CR LF line endings (Win32) work on UNIX.
Better version portability
@@ -85,14 +85,166 @@ Version 5.004_05 Maintenance release 5 for 5.004
- Some 5.005 internals/XS features added such as
new ERRSV, ERRHV, DEFSV, SAVE_DEFSV and dTHR macros.
Better utilities
- - many enhancements for h2ph, perldoc, perlbug etc.
+ - Many enhancements for h2ph, perldoc, perlbug etc.
Better warnings / fewer warnings
- - No longer warns for $x{shift}, ne => 1, or -f => 1.
- - No longer warns for while($x=<>) (implicit defined added).
+ - No more warnings on $x{shift}, ne => 1, or -f => 1.
+ - Implicit defined() added in while($x=<>).
Better code
- - many bugs and all known run-time memory leaks fixed.
+ - Almost all known run-time memory leaks fixed.
+ - Many other bugs fixed.
+Change 3277 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/26 22:54:27
+
+ Update Changes and patchlevel.h for maint trial 9.
+
+Change 3276 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/26 22:34:36
+
+ Make porting scripts executable.
+
+Change 3275 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/26 22:21:43
+
+ Merge most of Porting directory from mainline.
+
+Change 3253 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:57:52
+
+ Explain next/last/redo a bit more in perlfunc.
+ (from M.J.T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>)
+
+Change 3252 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:33:25
+
+ Rebuild embed.h. (Forgot.)
+
+Change 3251 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:31:50
+
+ Eliminate false Configure warning about LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+ (It's now set automatically during the build process.)
+
+Change 3250 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:30:57
+
+ Fix check for glibc, so it'll work with 2.1.
+ (back-formation from 5.006-to-be)
+
+Change 3249 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:30:22
+
+ Refresh hints for FreeBSD.
+
+Change 3248 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:29:59
+
+ Automatically set LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) during the
+ build process. (back-formation from 5.006-to-be)
+
+Change 3247 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:29:08
+
+ New config variable $ignore_versioned_solibs, for Linux.
+
+Change 3246 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:28:17
+
+ Don't use 'nm' under AIX.
+
+Change 3245 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:27:49
+
+ Make AutoSplit harder to fool.
+
+Change 3244 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:27:17
+
+ Fix some broken document links. (from Tom Christiansen)
+
+Change 3243 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:26:21
+
+ Refresh Text::Wrap to 98.112902.
+
+Change 3242 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:25:10
+
+ Use locale in Pod::Html and Pod::Text.
+ Fix typos in Pod::Text.
+
+Change 3241 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:21:49
+
+ Revert argument list change in export_to_level.
+
+Change 3240 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:21:18
+
+ Add 'no_modify' to list of variables in 5.005.
+
+Change 3239 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:20:23
+
+ Refresh perlport to 1.39. (from Chris Nandor)
+
+Change 3238 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:19:38
+
+ Fix typo in perlxstut.
+
+Change 3237 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:19:10
+
+ Clear errno on successful C<require>.
+
+Change 3236 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:17:50
+
+ Add test of C<goto> interaction with AUTOLOAD.
+
+Change 3235 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:15:51
+
+ Make Text::ParseWords handle some delimiters with spaces.
+ (The full fix, using /(?-x:$foo)/, can't work in 5.004.)
+
+Change 3234 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:14:22
+
+ Properly handle tainted operations when -U is set.
+
+Change 3233 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:13:02
+
+ New config variable $installusrbinperl, defaulting 'undef'
+ for NetBSD. (from Jarkko)
+
+Change 3232 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:09:05
+
+ Update NetBSD hints.
+
+Change 3231 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:07:41
+
+ Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.19.
+
+Change 3230 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:06:19
+
+ Properly diagnose missing roots in rmtree().
+
+Change 3229 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:04:14
+
+ Preserve errno from importunities of sfio.
+
+Change 3228 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:02:33
+
+ Fix longstanding bug: searches for lexicals originating within
+ eval'' weren't stopping at the subroutine boundary correctly.
+ (back-formation from change 3037)
+
+Change 3227 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/13 04:00:47
+
+ Record Linux libc version.
+
+Change 3222 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/06 19:32:40
+
+ Disable setuid execution if 'nosuid' mount option specified.
+ (Original fix from Jarkko; hand-hackery of Configure by Chip.)
+
+Change 3221 by chip@perlsupport.com on 1999/04/06 19:27:50
+
+ Set CDPATH="." only if it's already set to something else.
+
+Change 2447 by gsar@aatma on 1998/12/04 03:47:42
+
+ Update README.win32 in maint-5.004.
+
+Change 2446 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk on 1998/12/03 15:52:59
+
+ Update MANIFEST for dna.small.gif.uu (change 2445)
+
+Change 2445 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk on 1998/12/03 15:49:32
+
+ Ship dna.small.gif uuencoded.
+ Update Changes and patchlevel.h for maint trial 8.
+
Change 2442 on 1998/12/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk
Configure supplies bad ccflags for Irix/GCC combo
diff --git a/patchlevel.h b/patchlevel.h
index b697e9d166..87ec2a1f73 100644
--- a/patchlevel.h
+++ b/patchlevel.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
/* The following line and terminating '};' are read by perlbug.PL. Don't alter. */
static char *local_patches[] = {
NULL
- ,"MAINT_TRIAL_8 - 5.004_05 maintenance trial 8"
+ ,"MAINT_TRIAL_9 - 5.004_05 maintenance trial 9"
,NULL
};