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ExtUtils::Manifest(3pm)               Perl Programmers Reference Guide               ExtUtils::Manifest(3pm)



NAME
       ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file

SYNOPSIS
           use ExtUtils::Manifest qw(...funcs to import...);

           mkmanifest();

           my @missing_files    = manicheck;
           my @skipped          = skipcheck;
           my @extra_files      = filecheck;
           my($missing, $extra) = fullcheck;

           my $found    = manifind();

           my $manifest = maniread();

           manicopy($read,$target);

           maniadd({$file => $comment, ...});

DESCRIPTION
       Functions

       ExtUtils::Manifest exports no functions by default.  The following are exported on request

       mkmanifest
               mkmanifest();

           Writes all files in and below the current directory to your MANIFEST.  It works similar to

               find . > MANIFEST

           All files that match any regular expression in a file MANIFEST.SKIP (if it exists) are ignored.

           Any existing MANIFEST file will be saved as MANIFEST.bak.  Lines from the old MANIFEST file is
           preserved, including any comments that are found in the existing MANIFEST file in the new one.

       manifind
               my $found = manifind();

           returns a hash reference. The keys of the hash are the files found below the current directory.

       manicheck
               my @missing_files = manicheck();

           checks if all the files within a "MANIFEST" in the current directory really do exist. If
           "MANIFEST" and the tree below the current directory are in sync it silently returns an empty
           list.  Otherwise it returns a list of files which are listed in the "MANIFEST" but missing from
           the directory, and by default also outputs these names to STDERR.

       filecheck
               my @extra_files = filecheck();

           finds files below the current directory that are not mentioned in the "MANIFEST" file. An
           optional file "MANIFEST.SKIP" will be consulted. Any file matching a regular expression in such a
           file will not be reported as missing in the "MANIFEST" file. The list of any extraneous files
           found is returned, and by default also reported to STDERR.

       fullcheck
               my($missing, $extra) = fullcheck();

           does both a manicheck() and a filecheck(), returning then as two array refs.

       skipcheck
               my @skipped = skipcheck();

           lists all the files that are skipped due to your "MANIFEST.SKIP" file.

       maniread
               my $manifest = maniread();
               my $manifest = maniread($manifest_file);

           reads a named "MANIFEST" file (defaults to "MANIFEST" in the current directory) and returns a
           HASH reference with files being the keys and comments being the values of the HASH.  Blank lines
           and lines which start with "#" in the "MANIFEST" file are discarded.

       manicopy
               manicopy(\%src, $dest_dir);
               manicopy(\%src, $dest_dir, $how);

           Copies the files that are the keys in %src to the $dest_dir.  %src is typically returned by the
           maniread() function.

               manicopy( maniread(), $dest_dir );

           This function is useful for producing a directory tree identical to the intended distribution
           tree.

           $how can be used to specify a different methods of "copying".  Valid values are "cp", which
           actually copies the files, "ln" which creates hard links, and "best" which mostly links the files
           but copies any symbolic link to make a tree without any symbolic link.  "cp" is the default.

       maniadd
             maniadd({ $file => $comment, ...});

           Adds an entry to an existing MANIFEST unless its already there.

           $file will be normalized (ie. Unixified).  UNIMPLEMENTED

       MANIFEST

       A list of files in the distribution, one file per line.  The MANIFEST always uses Unix filepath
       conventions even if you're not on Unix.  This means foo/bar style not foo\bar.

       Anything between white space and an end of line within a "MANIFEST" file is considered to be a
       comment.  Any line beginning with # is also a comment.

           # this a comment
           some/file
           some/other/file            comment about some/file

       MANIFEST.SKIP

       The file MANIFEST.SKIP may contain regular expressions of files that should be ignored by
       mkmanifest() and filecheck(). The regular expressions should appear one on each line. Blank lines and
       lines which start with "#" are skipped.  Use "\#" if you need a regular expression to start with a
       "#".

       For example:

           # Version control files and dirs.
           \bRCS\b
           \bCVS\b
           ,v$
           \B\.svn\b

           # Makemaker generated files and dirs.
           ^MANIFEST\.
           ^Makefile$
           ^blib/
           ^MakeMaker-\d

           # Temp, old and emacs backup files.
           ~$
           \.old$
           ^#.*#$
           ^\.#

       If no MANIFEST.SKIP file is found, a default set of skips will be used, similar to the example above.
       If you want nothing skipped, simply make an empty MANIFEST.SKIP file.

       In one's own MANIFEST.SKIP file, certain directives can be used to include the contents of other
       MANIFEST.SKIP files. At present two such directives are recognized.

       #!include_default
           This inserts the contents of the default MANIFEST.SKIP file

       #!include /Path/to/another/manifest.skip
           This inserts the contents of the specified external file

       The included contents will be inserted into the MANIFEST.SKIP file in between #!start included
       /path/to/manifest.skip and #!end included /path/to/manifest.skip markers.  The original MANIFEST.SKIP
       is saved as MANIFEST.SKIP.bak.

       EXPORT_OK

       &mkmanifest, &manicheck, &filecheck, &fullcheck, &maniread, and &manicopy are exportable.

       GLOBAL VARIABLES

       $ExtUtils::Manifest::MANIFEST defaults to "MANIFEST". Changing it results in both a different
       "MANIFEST" and a different "MANIFEST.SKIP" file. This is useful if you want to maintain different
       distributions for different audiences (say a user version and a developer version including RCS).

       $ExtUtils::Manifest::Quiet defaults to 0. If set to a true value, all functions act silently.

       $ExtUtils::Manifest::Debug defaults to 0.  If set to a true value, or if PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG is
       true, debugging output will be produced.

DIAGNOSTICS
       All diagnostic output is sent to "STDERR".

       "Not in MANIFEST:" file
           is reported if a file is found which is not in "MANIFEST".

       "Skipping" file
           is reported if a file is skipped due to an entry in "MANIFEST.SKIP".

       "No such file:" file
           is reported if a file mentioned in a "MANIFEST" file does not exist.

       "MANIFEST:" $!
           is reported if "MANIFEST" could not be opened.

       "Added to MANIFEST:" file
           is reported by mkmanifest() if $Verbose is set and a file is added to MANIFEST. $Verbose is set
           to 1 by default.

ENVIRONMENT
       PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG
           Turns on debugging

SEE ALSO
       ExtUtils::MakeMaker which has handy targets for most of the functionality.

AUTHOR
       Andreas Koenig "[email protected]"

       Maintained by Michael G Schwern "[email protected]" within the ExtUtils-MakeMaker package and, as a
       separate CPAN package, by Randy Kobes "[email protected]".



perl v5.10.0                                     2007-12-18                          ExtUtils::Manifest(3pm)