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.IX Title "ExtUtils::Helpers 3"
.TH ExtUtils::Helpers 3 "2016-09-09" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
ExtUtils::Helpers \- Various portability utilities for module builders
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.026
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\& use ExtUtils::Helpers qw/make_executable split_like_shell/;
\&
\& unshift @ARGV, split_like_shell($ENV{PROGRAM_OPTS});
\& write_script_to(\*(AqBuild\*(Aq);
\& make_executable(\*(AqBuild\*(Aq);
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This module provides various portable helper functions for module building modules.
.SH "FUNCTIONS"
.IX Header "FUNCTIONS"
.SS "make_executable($filename)"
.IX Subsection "make_executable($filename)"
This makes a perl script executable.
.SS "split_like_shell($string)"
.IX Subsection "split_like_shell($string)"
This function splits a string the same way as the local platform does.
.SS "detildefy($path)"
.IX Subsection "detildefy($path)"
This function substitutes a tilde at the start of a path with the users homedir in an appropriate manner.
.SS "man1_pagename($filename)"
.IX Subsection "man1_pagename($filename)"
Returns the man page filename for a script.
.ie n .SS "man3_pagename($filename, $basedir)"
.el .SS "man3_pagename($filename, \f(CW$basedir\fP)"
.IX Subsection "man3_pagename($filename, $basedir)"
Returns the man page filename for a Perl library.
.SH "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
.IX Header "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
Olivier Mengué and Christian Walde made \f(CW\*(C`make_executable\*(C'\fR work on Windows.
.SH "AUTHORS"
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
.IP "\(bu" 4
Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Ken Williams, Leon Timmermans.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.