NAME Alien::patch - Find or build patch VERSION version 0.05 SYNOPSIS use Alien::patch; # patch should now be in your PATH if it wasn't already DESCRIPTION Many environments provide the patch command, but a few do not. Using this module in your Build.PL (or elsewhere) you can make sure that patch will be available. If the system provides it, then great, this module is a no-op. If it does not, then it will download and install it into a private location so that it can be added to the PATH when this module is used. METHODS exe my $exe = Alien::patch->exe; Returns the command to run patch on your system. For now it simply adds the --binary option on Windows (MSWin32 but not cygwin) which is usually what you want. AUTHOR Graham Ollis COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Graham Ollis. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.