1Devel::PatchPerl(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  Devel::PatchPerl(3)
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NAME

6       Devel::PatchPerl - Patch perl source a la Devel::PPPort's buildperl.pl
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VERSION

9       version 1.92
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SYNOPSIS

12         use strict;
13         use warnings;
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15         use Devel::PatchPerl;
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17         Devel::PatchPerl->patch_source( '5.6.1', '/path/to/untarred/perl/source/perl-5.6.1' );
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DESCRIPTION

20       Devel::PatchPerl is a modularisation of the patching code contained in
21       Devel::PPPort's "buildperl.pl".
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23       It does not build perls, it merely provides an interface to the source
24       patching functionality.
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FUNCTION

27       "patch_source"
28           Takes two parameters, a "perl" version and the path to unwrapped
29           perl source for that version.  It dies on any errors.
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31           If you don't supply a "perl" version, it will attempt to auto-
32           determine the "perl" version from the specified path.
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34           If you don't supply the path to unwrapped perl source, it will
35           assume the current working directory.
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37       "determine_version"
38           Takes one optional parameter, the path to unwrapped perl source. It
39           returns the perl version of the source code at the given location.
40           It returns undef on error.
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42           If you don't supply the path to unwrapped perl source, it will
43           assume the current working directory.
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PLUGIN SYSTEM

46       See Devel::PatchPerl::Plugin for details of Devel::PatchPerl's plugin
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CAVEAT

50       Devel::PatchPerl is intended only to facilitate the "building" of
51       perls, not to facilitate the "testing" of perls. This means that it
52       will not patch failing tests in the perl testsuite.
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SEE ALSO

55       Devel::PPPort
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57       Devel::PatchPerl::Plugin
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AUTHOR

60       Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
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63       This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Chris Williams and Marcus
64       Holland-Moritz.
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66       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
67       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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