NAME

Alien::patch - Find or build patch

VERSION

version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

use Alien::patch;
# patch should now be in your PATH if it wasn't already

DESCRIPTION

Many environments provide the patch command, but a few do not. Using this module in your Build.PL (or elsewhere) you can make sure that patch will be available. If the system provides it, then great, this module is a no-op. If it does not, then it will download and install it into a private location so that it can be added to the PATH when this module is used.

METHODS

exe

my $exe = Alien::patch->exe;

Returns the command to run patch on your system. For now it simply adds the --binary option on Windows (MSWin32 but not cygwin) which is usually what you want.

HELPERS

patch

%{patch}

When used with Alien::Base::ModuleBuild in a alien_build_commands or alien_install_commands, this helper will be replaced by either patch (Unix and cygwin) or patch --binary (MSWin32).

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.