--- rpm-4.1/scripts/Makefile.am.wiget	Thu Aug 22 19:31:42 2002
+++ rpm-4.1/scripts/Makefile.am	Wed Sep 18 23:52:19 2002
@@ -31,4 +31,5 @@
 	magic.prov magic.req perl.prov perl.req rpmdiff rpmdiff.cgi \
 	rpm.daily rpm.log rpm.xinetd rpm2cpio.sh \
 	sql.prov sql.req tcl.req tgpg trpm u_pkg.sh \
+  	find-perl-requires find-perl-provides \
 	vpkg-provides.sh vpkg-provides2.sh
--- rpm-4.1/scripts/perl.prov.wiget	Fri Feb  1 16:20:26 2002
+++ rpm-4.1/scripts/perl.prov	Wed Sep 18 23:50:15 2002
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@
 
 if ("@ARGV") {
   foreach (@ARGV) {
-    process_file($_);
+     if (! m=(/(doc|usr/src)/|\.(so|gz|ph|pod|h|html)$)=) {
+      process_file($_);
+    }
   }
 } else {
 
@@ -55,7 +57,9 @@
   # contents of the file.
 
   foreach (<>) {
-    process_file($_);
+     if (! m=(/(doc|usr/src)/|\.(so|gz|ph|pod|h|html)$)=) {
+      process_file($_);
+    }
   }
 }
 
--- rpm-4.1/scripts/perl.req.wiget	Mon Jun  3 22:56:33 2002
+++ rpm-4.1/scripts/perl.req	Wed Sep 18 23:50:15 2002
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
+#!@__PERL@
 
 # RPM (and it's source code) is covered under two separate licenses. 
 
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@
 
 if ("@ARGV") {
   foreach (@ARGV) {
-    process_file($_);
+    if (m=/usr/(sbin|bin|lib|share|X11R6/(lib|bin))/=) {
+      if (! m=(/(doc|man|info|usr/src)/|\.(so|ph|h|html|pod)$)=) {
+        process_file($_);
+      }
+    }
   }
 } else {
   
@@ -49,14 +53,22 @@
   # contents of the file.
   
   foreach (<>) {
-    process_file($_);
+     if (m=/usr/(sbin|bin|lib|share|X11R6/(lib|bin))/=) {
+       if (! m=(/(doc|man|info|usr/src)/|\.(so|ph|h|html|pod)$)=) {
+         process_file($_);
+       }
+     }
   }
 }
 
 
 foreach $module (sort keys %require) {
   if (length($require{$module}) == 0) {
-    print "perl($module)\n";
+     if ($module =~ /^[0-9._]+$/) {
+       print "perl >= $module\n";
+     } else {
+         print "perl($module)\n";
+     }
   } else {
 
     # I am not using rpm3.0 so I do not want spaces arround my
@@ -209,7 +221,31 @@
       # will be included with the name sys/systeminfo.ph so only use the
       # basename of *.ph files
 
-      ($module  =~ m/\.ph$/) && next;
+      # ($module  =~ m/\.ph$/) && ($module =~ s!.*/!!g );
+ 
+      # there is no need to generate dependencies for ph, pl or test files
+      # so let's just skip them.
+
+      ($module =~ m/\.(ph|pl|t)$/) && next;
+
+      # skip all modules for platforms other than linux.
+
+      ($module =~ m/Mac|OS2|MSDOS|Win32|VMS|vmsish/) && next;
+
+      # if the module name starts in a dot it is not a module name.
+
+      ($module =~ m/^\./) && next;
+
+      # if the module ends with .pm strip it to leave only basename.
+
+      $module =~ s/\.pm$//;
+
+      $module =~ s/\//::/;
+
+      # trim off trailing parenthesis if any.  Sometimes people pass
+      # the module an empty list.
+
+      $module =~ s/\(\s*\)$//;
 
       $require{$module}=$version;
       $line{$module}=$_;
--- rpm-4.1/configure.ac.wiget	Thu Aug 22 19:01:34 2002
+++ rpm-4.1/configure.ac	Wed Sep 18 23:50:46 2002
@@ -1194,6 +1194,7 @@
 AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(popt beecrypt zlib libelf db3)
 
 AC_OUTPUT([ Doxyfile Makefile rpmrc macros platform rpmpopt rpm.spec
+	macros.perl scripts/perl.req scripts/perl.prov
 	rpmio/Makefile rpmdb/Makefile lib/Makefile build/Makefile
 	scripts/Makefile scripts/brp-redhat
 	scripts/macros.perl scripts/macros.php scripts/macros.python
--- rpm-4.1/macros.in.wiget	Sun Sep  1 00:30:19 2002
+++ rpm-4.1/macros.in	Wed Sep 18 23:50:46 2002
@@ -1012,8 +1012,10 @@
 #	%dir %{perl_sitearch}/auto/Image
 #
 %requires_eq()	%(LC_ALL="C" echo '%*' | xargs -r rpm -q --qf 'Requires: %%{name} = %%{epoch}:%%{version}\\n' | sed -e 's/ (none):/ /' -e 's/ 0:/ /' | grep -v "is not")
-%perl_sitearch	%(eval "`perl -V:installsitearch`"; echo $installsitearch)
-%perl_archlib	%(eval "`perl -V:installarchlib`"; echo $installarchlib)
+#
+# NOTE: %{perl_sitearch}, %{perl_archlib} and %{perl_sitelib} macros 
+#	has been moved to macros.perl (see info in this file for details).
+#
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # arch macro for all Intel i?86 compatibile processors