Devel::PatchPerl::HintUser Contributed Perl DocumentDevel::PatchPerl::Hints(3)NAMEDevel::PatchPerl::Hints - replacement 'hints' files
VERSION
version 0.76
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;
}
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.
AUTHOR
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 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.
perl v5.14.2 2012-08-27 Devel::PatchPerl::Hints(3)
