catdir list

Concatenates a list of directory names to form a complete path ending with a directory. On Unix, joins the names with /.

catfile list

Concatenates one or more directory names and a filename to form a complete path ending with a filename. On Unix, joins the names with /.

dir_target array

Takes an array of required directory names and returns a Makefile entry to create an .exists file in the directories. Returns nothing if the entry has already been processed.

file_name_is_absolute filename

Takes a path as argument and returns true if it is an absolute path.

find_perl version, \names, \dirs, trace

Searches for an executable Perl. Takes the following arguments:

version

The executable must be at least the version given by version.

\names

Array reference. The name of the executable must be an entry in the array.

\dirs

Array reference. The executable must be in a directory that is one of the entries in the array.

trace

If true, prints debugging information.

guess_name

Guesses the name of the package based on the working directory's name. Called only if the NAME attribute is missing.

has_link_code

Returns true if there are C, XS, MYEXTLIB, or similar objects in this object that need a compiler. Does not descend into subdirectories.

libscan filename

Uses init_dirscan to find a file; returns false if the file should not be included in the library. Used primarily to keep revision-control directories from being installed.

lsdir dir, regexp

Returns all entries in the specified directory that match the regular expression. Takes the following arguments:

dir

Name of the directory

regexp

Regular expression to match the entries against

maybe_command filename

Returns true if filename is likely to be a command.

maybe_command_in_dirs

For future use.

needs_linking

Returns true if the module needs linking. Searches subdirectories.

nicetext target

The MM_Unix version returns the argument with no processing.

path

Returns PATH environment variable as an array.

perl_script filename

Returns true if filename is likely to be a Perl script. With MM_Unix, this is true for any ordinary, readable file.

prefixify attrname, oldprefix, newprefix

Processes a path attribute in $self->{ attrname }. Looks up the attribute in %Config if it doesn't have a value. Takes the following arguments:

attrname

Name of the attribute to be processed

oldprefix

Prefix to be replaced

newprefix

New prefix, replaced in-place

replace_manpage_separator filename

Takes the filename of a package and replaces the subdirectory delimiter (/ in Unix) with ::. Returns the altered name.