Devel::PatchPerl::Hints(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Devel::PatchPerl::Hints(3pm)

NAME

       Devel::PatchPerl::Hints - replacement 'hints' files

VERSION

       version 0.72

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							    2012-06-04					      Devel::PatchPerl::Hints(3pm)