NAME¶
Devel::PatchPerl::Hints - replacement 'hints' files
VERSION¶
version 1.28
SYNOPSIS¶
use Devel::PatchPerl::Hints;
if ( my $content = Devel::PatchPerl::Hints->hint_file() ) {
chmod 0644, 'hints/netbsd.sh' or die "$!";
open my $hints, '>', 'hints/netbsd.sh' or die "$!";
print $hints $content;
close $hints;
}
# Get a list of OS for which we have hints
my @os = Devel::PatchPerl::Hints->hints();
DESCRIPTION¶
Sometimes there is a problem with Perls "hints" file for a particular
perl port. This module provides fixed "hints" files encoded using
"MIME::Base64".
FUNCTION¶
The function is exported, but has to implicitly imported into the requesting
package.
use Devel::PatchPerl::Hints qw[hint_file];
It may also be called as a class method:
use Devel::PatchPerl::Hints;
my $content = Devel::PatchPerl::Hints->hint_file();
- "hint_file"
- Takes an optional argument which is the OS name ( as would be returned by
$^O ). By default it will use $^O.
In a scalar context, Will return the decoded content of the
"hints" file suitable for writing straight to a file handle or
undef list if there isn't an applicable "hints" file for the
given or derived OS.
If called in a list context, will return a list, the first item will be the
name of the "hints" file that will need to be amended, the
second item will be a string with the decoded content of the
"hints" file suitable for writing straight to a file handle.
Otherwise an empty list will be returned.
- "hints"
- Takes no arguments, returns a list of OS names for which there are
"hints" files.
AUTHOR¶
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Chris Williams and Marcus Holland-Moritz.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.