NAME

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

VERSION

       version 1.16

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;
         }

         # Get a list of OS for which we have hints

         my @os = Devel::PatchPerl::Hints->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.

       "hints"
           Takes no arguments, returns a list of OS names for which there are "hints" files.

AUTHOR

       Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       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.