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# ChangeLog for dev-lang/perl
# Copyright 2002-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/perl/ChangeLog,v 1.55 2004/02/21 11:15:21 mcummings Exp $

  21 Feb 2004; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r11.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild, perl-5.8.2.ebuild,
  files/libperl-5.8.0-create-libperl-soname.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.0-perldoc-emptydirs.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.0-prelink-lpthread.patch, files/perl-5.8.0-reorder-INC.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.0-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch:
  Massive clean up. With 5.8.2 now marked stable on all platforms, we are
    removing the older 5.8.0 ebuilds, which are no longer available upstream
    anymore. I also cleaned out the files dir of any patches that were being
    specifically used by 5.8.0 and not the other versions.

  19 Feb 2004; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  stable on alpha and ia64

  18 Feb 2004; Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  Marking stable on mips

  09 Feb 2004; Bartosch Pixa <darkspecter@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  set ppc in keywords

  06 Feb 2004; <gustavoz@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  stable on sparc

  03 Feb 2004; <gustavoz@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  stable on hppa

  01 Feb 2004; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild:
  mark x86

*perl-5.8.3 (17 Jan 2004)

  17 Jan 2004; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1-r1.ebuild, perl-5.8.1-r2.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.3.ebuild, files/perl-5.8.1-perldoc-emptydirs.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1-prelink-lpthread.patch, files/perl-5.8.1-reorder-INC.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc1-reorder-INC.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc1-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc2-reorder-INC.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc2-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.3-perldoc-emptydirs.patch, files/perl-5.8.3-picdl.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.3-prelink-lpthread.patch, files/perl-5.8.3-reorder-INC.patch:
  Upstream bump, housecleaning

  06 Jan 2004; Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild:
  Marked ~arm to let me commit ppc related changes (it is as wierd as it sound)

*perl-5.8.2-r1 (29 Nov 2003)

  29 Nov 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2-r1.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.2-picdl.patch:
  Make CCCDLFLAGS apply to static archives like DynaLoader.a as well, even
  though we are not building a shared libperl here, because we do have a shared
  library elsewhere. Should make it so that arches like amd64 and hppa no longer
  have to add -fPIC to all cflags blindly.

  26 Nov 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2.ebuild:
  Make perl depend on exact same libperl version, so that upgrading perl will
  bring libperl along. Solves problems where new modules go into directories in
  @INC too new for libperl to know about

  16 Nov 2003; Brad House <brad_mssw@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2.ebuild:
  mark stable on amd64

*perl-5.8.2 (08 Nov 2003)

  08 Nov 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.2.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.2-perldoc-emptydirs.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.2-prelink-lpthread.patch, files/perl-5.8.2-reorder-INC.patch:
  new upstream version

  22 Oct 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1-r2.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.1-perldoc-emptydirs.patch:
  Forward-port the perldoc emptydirs patch

  20 Oct 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1-r1.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.1-r2.ebuild:
  Changed how h2ph grabs its list of files; relying on h2ph to efficiently
  recurse was resulting a looping condition when there is a symlink in
  /usr/include/* (libxml was the sample case - thanks DarkSpecter!). Using find
  isolates the list to only .h files.

  14 Oct 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1-r2.ebuild:
  Allow building even when db-1 is not present, but let ndbm_file use it if it's
  there

*perl-5.8.1-r2 (02 Oct 2003)

  02 Oct 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1-r2.ebuild, perl-5.8.1.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc2.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc3.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.1_rc4.ebuild, files/perl-5.8.1-prelink-lpthread.patch:
  Clean house, readd pthread prelink patch to avoid reported sdl segfaulting.
  Thanks to lisa for the report.

*perl-5.8.1-r1 (29 Sep 2003)

  29 Sep 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1-r1.ebuild:
  Change destdir handling in a couple of places

*perl-5.8.1 (27 Sep 2003)

  27 Sep 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.1-reorder-INC.patch:
  New upstream revision

  17 Sep 2003; Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild :
  ia64 keywords.

  22 Aug 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild,
  perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild, perl-5.6.1-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.0-r11.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc2.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc3.ebuild:
  Corrected h2ph behaviour to now run -r -l -- recursively :)
  Also fixes bug 14461

*perl-5.8.1_rc3 (30 Jul 2003)

  30 Jul 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1_rc3.ebuild:
  Latest release candidate for 5.8.1

  25 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc2.ebuild:
  Forward-port alpha and hppa fixes from 5.8.0-r9

  25 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild:
  Remove ~arch protection on all but hppa

*perl-5.8.1_rc2 (23 Jul 2003)

  23 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1_rc2.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc2-reorder-INC.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc2-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch:
  Add 5.8.1-rc2

  18 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild:
  Add blocker on Test-Simple versions that overwrite the core

  18 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild:
  Portage depends to >=2.0.48-r4.  This is important for blocking depends

  16 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild:
  Add portage depend on version that fixes bug 23546, so the blocking depends
  will be guaranteed to work even if people are upgrading

  15 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild, perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild:
  Fiddle with the module block depends a bit, largely to ensure that File-Spec
  0.84 doesn't fall through the cracks

*perl-5.8.1_rc1 (10 Jul 2003)

  10 Jul 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.1_rc1.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc1-reorder-INC.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.1_rc1-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch:
  Add 5.8.1_rc1.  Experimental.

  01 Jul 2003; Todd Sunderlin <todd@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r11.ebuild:
  set stable on sparc

  26 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r11.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild:
  Add -Dd_u32align on mips to work around a gcc 3.3 kernel compiling bug

  26 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild:
  Add block depends on ExtUtils-MakeMaker and File-Spec, because we need to get
  those uninstalled before they steal our files again

*perl-5.8.0-r12 (25 Jun 2003)

  25 Jul 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild :
  Marked stable on hppa.

  25 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r12.ebuild,
  files/perl-5.8.0-reorder-INC.patch:
  Reorder @INC so that site modules can override vendor modules, which can in
  turn override core modules.

  24 Jun 2003; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild:
  Mark stable on alpha

  10 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r12.ebuild:
  Mark stable on x86

  06 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r12.ebuild:
  Add sed-4 dependency to use sed -i

  04 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r11.ebuild:
  Relax db DEPEND as well as RDEPEND.  Thanks to mcummings for the catch.

*perl-5.8.0-r11 (03 Jun 2003)

  03 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r11.ebuild:
  Clean out libperl bits from ebuild. Grab newer version of Safe.pm from CPAN
  for security reasons, DB_File for db 4.1 compatibility.

*perl-5.6.1-r12 (02 Jun 2003)

  02 Jun 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r12.ebuild:
  Replace PDEPEND strategy for ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Safe.pm with the approach
  of injecting newer versions directly into the core

*perl-5.6.1-r11 (31 May 2003)

  31 May 2003; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild,
  perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild, files/5.6.1-builtin-fixup.diff,
  files/5.6.1-op-test-fix.diff, files/stat.t:
  Putting perl-5.6.1 back in because it breaks the default-1.0 profile.

  30 May 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild, perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild, files/5.6.1-builtin-fixup.diff,
  files/5.6.1-op-test-fix.diff:
  Marking stable on mips, thanks to dragon and kumba for verification and
  mcummings for coordination.  Also cleaning 5.6.1 ebuilds, as all marked
  arches now have a stable 5.8 version

  27 May 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild:
  Add threads to IUSE, thanks to liquidx for the catch

  20 May 2003; Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild:
  removing gcc hardcodes.

  18 May 2003; Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild:
  removing hardcoded compiler.

*perl-5.8.0-r10 (30 Mar 2003)

  23 Apr 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild:
  Only build extra HTML documentation if USE="doc" is set - thanks to
  msterret@gentoo.org - bug #16401

  07 Apr 2003; Martin Holzer <mholzer@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild,
  perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild:
  Changes portage version depend. Closes #13339.

  30 Mar 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild:
  marking stable again on x86 and ppc - previous sparc keyword commit undid this
  and broke things

  30 Mar 2003; Rodney Rees <manson@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild,
  marked stable for sparc

*perl-5.8.0-r10 (11 Mar 2003)

  27 Mar 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild:
  Marking stable for x86 and ppc, no problems reported from ~arch testers

  11 Mar 2003; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild,
  perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild, perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild,
  files/5.6.1-builtin-fixup.diff, files/5.6.1-op-test-fix.diff,
  files/libperl-5.8.0-create-libperl-soname.patch, files/libperl_rebuilder,
  files/perl-5.8.0-RC2-special-h2ph-not-failing-on-machine_ansi_header.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.0-perldoc-emptydirs.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.0-prelink-lpthread.patch,
  files/perl-5.8.0-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch, files/stat.t:
  moved to dev-lang from sys-devel

*perl-5.8.0-r10 (28 Feb 2003)

  01 Mar 2003; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild,
  perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild:
  Make use emake instead of make, but still use 1 process build where needed

  28 Feb 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r10.ebuild:
  Ensure that libpthread is linked against by perl, so that runtime
  signal handling works correctly (bug #14380).
  
  Patch perldoc to not abort when it attempts to search nonexistent
  directories (bug #16589).

*perl-5.6.1-r11 (14 Feb 2003)

  24 Mar 2003; <rac@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild, perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild:
  Remove spurious '$' from head of SRC_URI

  16 Mar 2003; Jan Seidel <tuxus@gentoo.org> :
  Added mips to KEYWORDS

  14 Feb 2003; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild :
  Set to ppc stable

  14 Feb 2003; Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r11.ebuild files/5.6.1-builtin-fixup.diff files/5.6.1-op-test-fix.diff files/digest-perl-5.6.1-r11 :
  built-in sed fixups, placed in makefile.SH instead of randomly thru the build.  Thanks to rac for all his help and an lfs patch

  11 Feb 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild :
  Added hppa to keywords.

*perl-5.8.0-r9 (15 Jan 2003)

  23 Feb 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild :
  Added -fPIC to CFLAGS on hppa. It's needed by apps linking to some perl libs.

  18 Feb 2003; Zach Welch <zwelch@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild :
  Added arm to keywords.

  10 Feb 2003; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> *.ebuild :

  removed old and crusty ebuilds, there were just way too many in here.
  Also, changed sed statements to use : instead of /

  05 Feb 2003; J Robert Ray <jrray@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9.ebuild; Changed to strip
  "-malign-double" from CFLAGS, fixing bug 14608.

  17 Jan 2003;Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9;

  Another blundered typo. The flag-o-matic include had a "0" instead of a "O"

  16 Jan 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9;

  Typo fix, this one in an einfo.
  Incorporate flag-o-matic per bug 13952 - the -Os flag doesn't work with perl

  15 Jan 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r9;

  Major typo corrections that affected the placement of scripts and the man
  pages. There was a typo introduced into the 5.8 ebuilds early on that was
  not caught until now that left the location of the man pages blank and that 
  misset the /usr call for scripts placement from perl modules. This was caught
  in bugs 13886 and 13920

  15 Jan 2003; J Robert Ray <jrray@gentoo.org> libperl_rebuilder : Fixed
  unfortunate typo.

*perl-5.8.0-r8 (06 Jan 2003)

  12 Jan 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8,
  libperl_rebuilder:
  
  ebuild - Put a sleep where we had one in the else block so that there is a
  pause before emerging (notice regarding threads). Added a sleep at the tail
  end of the ebuild so that there is a pause for folks doing an emerge -u world
  so that they at leat have an opportunity to see the notice.
  libperl_rebuilder - Removed the unmerge section, that's really overkill for
  our needs and only complicates things. Added new syntax to check for files
  installed into /usr/lib/perl* that weren't picked up previously. Changed the
  name of the log file to perl-update.log (makes more sense ;) ) Added mask
  check earlier in the sanity phase.

  08 Jan 2003; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8.ebuild :

  Unmasked for sparc.

  08 Jan 2003; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8:
  Later that day:  dosed smells funny, switch some of it
  to use just sed and a for loop, this smells better
  to me, and fixed the problems I was having with
  ${D} staying in the files.

  08 Jan 2003; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8:
  Remove  a wild 'test' from comments =)

  08 Jan 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8:
  Unmasking for x86.

  08 Jan 2003; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8:
  Updated ewarn at the top so that it makes sense (was telling a user
  they could use threads when they already were)

  06 Jan 2003; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r8:
  Updated einfo, added libperl ebuild. I've placed the libperl rebuilder
  in the filesdir and added a note about it to the pkg_postinstall. Thanks
  go to Azarah for the new set of ebuilds.

  03 Jan 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r10:
  small fix to regex of x2p/makefile - cp'ied the process further down the
  ebuild since this is rebuilt at each stage. This is for gcc-3.2 users 
  in particular and should take care of bug 12853
  
  27 Dec 2002;  Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r7.ebuild:
   
  Added depend for automake

  27 Dec 2002;  Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.6.1-r10:

  Added depend for automake
   
  27 Dec 2002;  Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r7.ebuild:

  Note for remerging perl modules added. Unmasked for x86.
    
*perl-5.8.0-r7 (22 Dec 2002)

  22 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r7.ebuild:

  PLEASE READ. There was a problem introduced for non threaded perl
  5.8's - a correction introduced earlier for threaded perls was adding
  -thread to the name of your arch. THIS CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR SOME
  MODULES. For instance, the DBI module checks to see what the name of
  your Config.pm has listed for $Config{archname} - if it had thread in
  it *anywhere*, it assumed you had threading enabled, but since your
  perl was failing to use threads, would fail. This will version of the
  ebuild will correct that. You will need to re-emerge modules installed
  with perl 5.8. A tool for this is forthcoming.
    
  
  20 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r6.ebuild:
  
  Finished what Lostlogic started - finished path corrections for
  threading vs unthreaded perl 5.8
  
  20 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild:

  new ebuild confirmed by arch devs - Gerk did ppc, Alron did sparc

*perl-5.6.1-r10 (19 Dec 2002)

  07 Feb 2003; Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r9.ebuild perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild :
  Added hppa to keywords.

  19 Jan 2003; Jan Seidel <tuxus@gentoo.org> :
  Unmasking for mips 

  19 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.6.1-r10.ebuild:

  Contains patch for safe.pm - security bug, see bug 12190.

  19 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r6.ebuild:

  Same name, different ebuild. This is for the safe.pm fix.

*perl-5.8.0-r6 (17 Dec 2002)

  17 Dec 2002; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r6.ebuild :
  -arch this bad boy, it reb0rk what I unb0rk last night, stick with -r5
  will probably skip -r6 for the moment and go to -r7 with some more 
  fixage when we know what to refix more :)

  17 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r6.ebuild:

  Further fixes to path writing. If the user asks for threading, the
  dirs are $[arch]-linux-thread-multi. If not, the paths are
  $[arch]-linux - this is correct behaviour!! Installation with
  threading is *not* supported by all apps that dep perl.

*perl-5.8.0-r5 (17 Dec 2002)

  17 Dec 2002; Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org> perl-5.8.0-r5.ebuild:

  Fix threading use flag thingus, it doesn't put things in ${D}/${D} later 
  now.  Fix messages to only display if needed.  You will need to remerge
  all your perl modules after you install this with threads.

*perl-5.8.0-r4 (15 Dec 2002)

  15 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r4.ebuild:

  Made threading an internal use flag. This is to be used with caution.
  Added eerror messages to warn users of potential probs.

  13 Dec 2002; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r9.ebuild :

  Fix screwup in DEPEND, RDEPEND and PDEPEND.

  12 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.6.1-r9.ebuild:

  PDEPEND is in portage now, can unmask this. This -r installs the
  makemaker fix after installing perl - finally fixed. Thanks carpaski!

  11 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r3.ebuild:

  Busy day =:) Added LC_ALL=C into 5.8 (a fix made for 5.6.1, but lost)

  11 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.8.0-r3.ebuild:

  Changed emake back to make. bcowan pointed out that the parallel
  make fails for him, which is legit
  
  11 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> 
  perl-5.6.1-r9.ebuild:

  Pulled until PDEPEND is in. This worked only for those not behind
  firewalls, and unfortunately perl needs to work across the board.

*perl-5.6.1-r9 (10 Dec 2002)

  10 Dec 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
  perl-5.6.1-r9.ebuild:

  Major fixes, including the inclusion of the ExtUtils-MakeMaker fix
  directly into perl's ebuild (thanks seemant!).
  
* Autoupdate keywords (12-6-02)
  06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees <manson@gentoo.org> : changed sparc ~sparc keywords
 
  26 Nov 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:

  Corrected deps in perl-5.6.1-r8 per bugs 4116 and 9314

*perl-5.6.1-r8 (13 Oct 2002)

  22 Nov 2002; <mcummings@gentoo.org>

  Added einfo note (finally) to instruct users to install MakeMaker
  patch. Also added catch for cases where -gdbm and -berkdb are in 
  the use flags - perl requires at least one of them to be available

  Second incantation of -r8. This time, it is for LC_ALL=C being added to 
  the ebuild itself. Perl won't compile correctly otherwise and handles
  internationaliztion post install.

  13 Oct 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r8.ebuild
  files/digest-perl-5.6.1-r8 :

  The fixes from -r7 didn't seem to make it into portage. So this version
  has those, plus the updated MakeMaker.  should close bug #8998 by
  rac@intrigue.com (Robert Coie)

*perl-5.6.1-r7 (02 Oct 2002)

  02 Oct 2002; mcummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> : Thanks entirely to seemant, 
  this release incorporates the MakeMaker fix directly into perl ebuild process.
  
*perl-5.8.0-r3 (13 Sep 2002)

  13 Sep 2002; <mcummings@gentoo.org> : r3 is a cleaner ebuild that should have   added support for other platforms.

*perl-5.8.0-r2 (16 Aug 2002)

  16 Aug 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> : added
  fix for gcc compile flags that corrects problems with apps 
  compiling against perl. 

*perl-5.8.0-r1 (10 Aug 2002)

  05 Aug 2002; Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> : added 
  threading, fixed hard coded architecture prefix, cleaned up
  ebuild

*perl-5.8.0 (28 Jul 2002)

  05 Aug 2002; pvdabeel <pvdabeel@gentoo.org> : fix header

  28 Jul 2002; Maik Schreiber <blizzy@gentoo.org> : version bump

*perl-5.6.1-r6 (04 Aug 2002)

  27 Aug 2002; mcummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> : Added stat.t fix,
  fixes compile problems on boxes with no suid's in the */bin's
  bug 7120, affects fresh installs only

  05 Aug 2002; pvdabeel <pvdabee@gentoo.org> : Added ppc keyword
  
  05 Aug 2002; pvdabeel <pvdabee@gentoo.org> : changelog entry

*perl-5.6.1-r5 (25 Jul 2002)

  05 Aug 2002; pvdabeel <pvdabeel@gentoo.org> :
  fix header

  26 Jul 2002; Spider <spider@gentoo.org> :
  fix SRC_URI to become pub/CPAN instead of pub/perl/CPAN
  
  25 Jul 2002; Spider <spider@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r5.ebuild
  minor patch to make it build on my gcc 3.1-r8 system
  
*perl-5.6.1-r4 (20 May 2002)

  05 Aug 2002; pvdabeel <pvdabeel@gentoo.org> : 
  fix header

  26 Jul 2002; Spider <spider@gentoo.org> :
  fix SRC_URI to become pub/CPAN instead of pub/perl/CPAN
    
  20 May 2002; Preston A. Elder <prez@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r4.ebuild
  files/digest-perl-5.6.1-r4 :

  Added ebuild that works with gcc 3.1.

*perl-5.6.1-r3 (5 May 2002)

  5 May 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r4.ebuild
  files/digest-perl-5.6.1-r4 :

  Added an eclass called perl-post.eclass, which this ebuild now inherits,
  so that the .pod file in ${libarchdir} gets updated cleanly with
  emerging and unmerging.

*perl-5.6.1-r3 (21 Mar 2002)

  21 Mar 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> perl-5.6.1-r3.ebuild :

  HTML documentation no longer gets gzipped, but a revision upgrade wasn't
  absolutely necessary, I don't think.  Thanks to stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at
  for pointing it out.

*perl-5.6.1-r3 (1 Feb 2002)

  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ChangeLog :
  
  Added initial ChangeLog which should be updated whenever the package is
  updated in any way. This changelog is targetted to users. This means that the
  comments should well explained and written in clean English. The details about
  writing correct changelogs are explained in the skel.ChangeLog file which you
  can find in the root directory of the portage repository.