#!/usr/local/bin/perl # This is for generating the perldoc executable. # It may eventually be expanded to generate many executables, as # explained in the preface of /Programming Perl/ 3e. require 5; use strict; use Config; use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname); use Cwd; # List explicitly here the variables you want Configure to # generate. Metaconfig only looks for shell variables, so you # have to mention them as if they were shell variables, not # %Config entries. Thus you write # $startperl # to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}. # This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file. # This is so that make depend always knows where to find PL derivatives. my $origdir = cwd; chdir dirname($0); my $file = basename($0, '.PL'); my $file_shortname = $file; # should be like "perldoc", maybe "perlsyn", etc. warn "How odd, I'm going to generate $file_shortname?!" unless $file_shortname =~ m/^\w+$/; $file .= '.com' if $^O eq 'VMS'; open OUT,">$file" or die "Can't create $file: $!"; print "Extracting \"$file\" (with variable substitutions)\n"; # In this section, perl variables will be expanded during extraction. # You can use $Config{...} to use Configure variables. print OUT <<"!GROK!THIS!"; $Config{startperl} eval 'exec $Config{perlpath} -S \$0 \${1+"\$@"}' if 0; # This "$file" file was generated by "$0" require 5; BEGIN { \$^W = 1 if \$ENV{'PERLDOCDEBUG'} } use Pod::Perldoc; exit( Pod::Perldoc->run() ); !GROK!THIS! close OUT or die "Can't close $file: $!"; chmod 0755, $file or die "Can't reset permissions for $file: $!\n"; exec("$Config{'eunicefix'} $file") if $Config{'eunicefix'} ne ':'; chdir $origdir;