Update from version 6.30 to 6.44.
Update discussed in general terms with jlam@.

Pkgsrc changes:
 o Some of our changes appear to have been adopted upstream,
   so patch-aa is gone and other diffs are reduced in size.
 o We don't install or tweak perllocal.pod, so comment out
   the testing of it being installed in the selftests.

Upstream changes:
6.44  Thu Feb 28 16:06:04 PST 2008
    Bug Fixes
    * Updated bundled ExtUtils::Install to 1.45 which should fix some
      Cygwin issues. [rt.cpan.org 33291]

6.43_01  Tue Jan  1 16:06:47 PST 2008
    Bug Fixes
    * Change the "is this really a Perl core library directory" checks to
      look for strict instead of Exporter.  Now that Exporter is on CPAN
      it can wind up in site_perl.
    * split_command() will now set aside a little more space for macro
      expansion.  This should help on systems with cramped command line
      lengths.  Specifically, Pugs on Win32.  [rt.cpan.org 20145]

    Installation
    * MakeMaker would not install if the installed MakeMaker was too old,
      like on 5.6.1.  The installation process was still using the
      installed MakeMaker in a few places.  This has been fixed.
      [rt.cpan.org 24746]

    OS X
    * "make dist" will no longer bundle up resource fork files (._foo).
      [rt.cpan.org 29525]

    Docs
    * The documentation of VERSION_FROM was recommending vstrings (1.2.3)
      which have never worked right.
    * The documentation for the accepted values of LICENSE moved to
      Module::Build::API. [rt.cpan.org 32020]

    Tests
    * The compilation test was testing the installed modules, not the
      about-to-be-installed.
    * xs.t would fail if ExtUtils::CBuilder was not installed.

    Misc
    * Cleanups brought to you by no more 5.5 compatibility!
    * MakeMaker is now perlcritic clean at severity level 5... except
      the really silly ones.
    * DIE use vars DIE!
    * Added some resources to the META.yml

6.42  Fri Dec  7 17:00:14 PST 2007
    Bug Fixes
    - 6.33 moved PREREQ_FATAL to happen after CONFIGURE.  This meant if
      your CONFIGURE use a prereq it would fail and no PREREQ_FATAL
      message would be displayed.
    - Put the "nicetext" functionality back, VMS needs it to deal with
      other people's custom make.  But rename it to the more
      accurate maketext_filter(), test it and fix a bug where it would
      stop processing if it saw a macro declaration.

6.40  Thu Dec  6 03:00:47 PST 2007
    Bug Fixes
    - Remove the dubious nicetext() Makefile formatting hack to account for
      a lack of space between the target and colon needed on VMS.  This
      interfered with META.yml creation on VMS and possibly other output.
    - Fix the remaining targets which don't have a space between the target
      and the colon.

6.38  Wed Nov 28 16:01:12 PST 2007
    Releasing 6.37_03 as 6.38.

6.37_03  Mon Nov 26 14:15:34 PST 2007
    Tests
    - parse_version.t had wrong test count when version.pm isn't installed.
    - Fixed some warnings in the XS module we're using for testing.
    - "our $VERSION" test in parse_version.t was never running
    - Quoting uses of 1.2.3 style versions in parse_version.t to protect
      older perls.

    Portability
    - Moved the minimum required version up to 5.6.0.

6.37_02  Sun Nov 25 23:33:14 PST 2007
    Test Improvements
    - Added a test for a basic XS build.

    Bug Fixes
    - A refactoring in 6.37_01 broke XS compilation.

6.37_01  Sun Nov 25 17:05:53 PST 2007
    Improvements
    - Upgraded the META.yml to version 1.3 of the spec (which really
      doesn't change anything).  Thanks bdfoy.
    - MakeMaker now always includes the required 'author' field in
      the META.yml even if it's undef to comply with the META.yml spec.
    - Updated ExtUtils-Install to latest version (1.44)
    - Unified the version numbers of all modules.

    Test Fixes
    - cd() test on VMS used non-native paths. [bleadperl 31534]
    - Removed uses of "no_plan" in tests to remain compatible with
      old versions of Test::Harness.
    - writemakefile_args.t had the wrong test count if version.pm isn't
      installed.

    Bug Fixes
    - $VERSION detection code would be confused by "sub version"
      [rt.cpan.org 30747]
    - LINKTYPE=static will now be propagated to child builds.
      [bleadperl 31761]

    Portability Fixes
    - Add "dragonfly" to the list of BSDish operating systems
    - BSD detection code would not pick up bsdos or internix
    - Fix detection of shared libperl on NetBSD [bleadperl 31526]

6.36  Tue Jul  3 01:06:40 PDT 2007
    Test Fixes
    - version.pm prior to 0.7203 caused Foo->VERSION to reformat
      $Foo::VERSION.  This caused prereq.t to fail.

6.35  Sun Jul  1 20:53:38 PDT 2007
    New Features
    * MakeMaker will now try to "use version" before parsing $VERSION.
      This allows "$VERSION = qv(1.2.3)" to work.

    Test Fixes
    - writemakefile_args.t now works with older versions of version.pm

6.34  Sat Jun 30 11:06:54 CDT 2007
    Test Fixes
    - Accidentally hard coded the version of strict.pm [rt.cpan.org 27838]


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$NetBSD: patch-ad,v 1.1 2008/07/26 19:11:54 he Exp $

Perl in pkgsrc doesn't install or tweak perllocal.pod, so comment
out that test.

--- t/INSTALL_BASE.t.orig	2008-07-24 09:05:26.000000000 +0200
+++ t/INSTALL_BASE.t
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use strict;
 use File::Path;
 use Config;
 
-use Test::More tests => 21;
+use Test::More tests => 19;
 use MakeMaker::Test::Utils;
 use MakeMaker::Test::Setup::BFD;
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ my @installed_files = 
   ('../dummy-install/lib/perl5/Big/Dummy.pm',
    '../dummy-install/lib/perl5/Big/Liar.pm',
    '../dummy-install/bin/program',
-   "../dummy-install/lib/perl5/$Config{archname}/perllocal.pod",
+#  "../dummy-install/lib/perl5/$Config{archname}/perllocal.pod",
    "../dummy-install/lib/perl5/$Config{archname}/auto/Big/Dummy/.packlist"
   );