PATCHPERL(1p)

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version 2.14 · 3 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PATCHPERL(1p) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, where we're talking about patchperl — she's the one who patches a perl source tree for you 🧚✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

patchperl — patch a perl source tree 🩹🌳

🎀 VERSION 🎀

version 2.14 — yes she's got a number, she's official, she's grown 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

no cap, the whole vibe is just:

patchperl

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual 🕯️🦋

🔥 COMMAND LINE SWITCHES 🔥

okay so these are the lil flags you can pass. listen up, they matter 💖

  • --version — prints the version of Devel::PatchPerl to STDOUT and then exits, like she said her name and left the group chat 👋✨
  • --patchlevel — so normally, Devel::PatchPerl will update the patchlevel.h file in the perl source tree to show that it applied local patches. iconic, love that for her. BUT. if she detects she's operating in a git repository, that behaviour gets negated — lowkey she's like "git's got this, I'm not touching it" 🙈. use this switch to override that and make her update patchlevel.h anyway, even when she's sitting inside a Git repository 👑💅

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk> — the legend, the moment, the main character 🫶

This software is copyright (c) 2025 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. slay, open source behaviour fr fr 🌸

ngl bestie, just run patchperl and let her cook 🍓

okay and that's a wrap — this page came from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-10-04, and it's the PATCHPERL(1p) manual page, mwah 💋✨ bye bestie, go patch something cute 🦋

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