Devel::PatchPerl::Hints - replacement 'hints' files
version 1.20
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();
Sometimes there is a problem with Perls hints file for a particular perl port. This module provides fixed hints files encoded using MIME::Base64.
hints
MIME::Base64
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.
$^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.
Takes no arguments, returns a list of OS names for which there are hints files.
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
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.
To install Devel::PatchPerl, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Devel::PatchPerl
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Devel::PatchPerl
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.