ExtUtils::Helpers(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation ExtUtils::Helpers(3)

ExtUtils::Helpers - Various portability utilities for module builders

version 0.026

use ExtUtils::Helpers qw/make_executable split_like_shell/;
unshift @ARGV, split_like_shell($ENV{PROGRAM_OPTS});
write_script_to('Build');
make_executable('Build');

This module provides various portable helper functions for module building modules.

This makes a perl script executable.

This function splits a string the same way as the local platform does.

This function substitutes a tilde at the start of a path with the users homedir in an appropriate manner.

Returns the man page filename for a script.

Returns the man page filename for a Perl library.

Olivier Mengué and Christian Walde made "make_executable" work on Windows.

  • Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org>
  • Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Ken Williams, Leon Timmermans.

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

2023-07-25 perl v5.38.0