# $File: //member/autrijus/PAR/README $ $Author: autrijus $
# $Revision: #2 $ $Change: 1521 $ $DateTime: 2002/10/19 02:30:49 $

This is the README file for PAR, a module to use perl scripts
and modules stored inside compressed .par files.

Please see the PAR.pm for typical uses, and script/par.pl for an
alternative perl packaging utility.

* Installation

PAR uses the standard perl module install process:

cpansign -v		# see SIGNATURE for details
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

After installation, if you want to enable stand-alone binary support,
please apply the included patch to the B::C module first (5.8.0 only):

patch `perl -MB::C -e'print $INC{"B/C.pm"}'` < patches/perl580.diff

And then:

perlcc -o /usr/local/bin/par script/par.pl

* Copyright

Copyright 2002 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

All rights reserved.  You can redistribute and/or modify
this bundle under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>.