| 1 | package blib; |
| 2 | |
| 3 | =head1 NAME |
| 4 | |
| 5 | blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package |
| 6 | |
| 7 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
| 8 | |
| 9 | perl -Mblib script [args...] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | perl -Mblib=dir script [args...] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Looks for MakeMaker-like I<'blib'> directory structure starting in |
| 16 | I<dir> (or current directory) and working back up to five levels of '..'. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Intended for use on command line with B<-M> option as a way of testing |
| 19 | arbitary scripts against an uninstalled version of a package. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | However it is possible to : |
| 22 | |
| 23 | use blib; |
| 24 | or |
| 25 | use blib '..'; |
| 26 | |
| 27 | etc. if you really must. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | =head1 BUGS |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Pollutes global name space for development only task. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | =head1 AUTHOR |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Nick Ing-Simmons nik@tiuk.ti.com |
| 36 | |
| 37 | =cut |
| 38 | |
| 39 | use Cwd; |
| 40 | |
| 41 | use vars qw($VERSION); |
| 42 | $VERSION = '1.00'; |
| 43 | |
| 44 | sub import |
| 45 | { |
| 46 | my $package = shift; |
| 47 | my $dir = getcwd; |
| 48 | if ($^O eq 'VMS') { ($dir = VMS::Filespec::unixify($dir)) =~ s-/$--; } |
| 49 | if (@_) |
| 50 | { |
| 51 | $dir = shift; |
| 52 | $dir =~ s/blib$//; |
| 53 | $dir =~ s,/+$,,; |
| 54 | $dir = '.' unless ($dir); |
| 55 | die "$dir is not a directory\n" unless (-d $dir); |
| 56 | } |
| 57 | my $i = 5; |
| 58 | while ($i--) |
| 59 | { |
| 60 | my $blib = "${dir}/blib"; |
| 61 | if (-d $blib && -d "$blib/arch" && -d "$blib/lib") |
| 62 | { |
| 63 | unshift(@INC,"$blib/arch","$blib/lib"); |
| 64 | warn "Using $blib\n"; |
| 65 | return; |
| 66 | } |
| 67 | $dir .= "/.."; |
| 68 | } |
| 69 | die "Cannot find blib even in $dir\n"; |
| 70 | } |
| 71 | |
| 72 | 1; |