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PERL-CLEANER

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Updated: March 2017
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perl-cleaner - manual page for perl-cleaner 2.25

perl-cleaner [,OPTION/]

perl-cleaner -- Find & rebuild packages and Perl header files broken due to a perl upgrade

-h, --help: Print usage
-V, --version: Print version
-p, --pretend: Pretend (don't do anything)
-v, --verbose: Increase verbosity (may be specified multiple times)
-q, --quiet: Decrease verbosity
--modules: Rebuild perl modules for old installs of perl
--allmodules: Rebuild all perl modules
--libperl: Rebuild anything linked against libperl
--ph-clean: Clean out old ph files from a previous perl
--all: Short for --modules --libperl --ph-clean
--reallyall: Short for --allmodules --libperl --ph-clean
--leftovers: Shows all files that were not rebuilt
--delete-leftovers Deletes known, typical leftover files
-P PM, --package-manager PM: Use package manager PM, where PM can be one of:
: * portage (Default) * pkgcore * paludis
-- OPTIONS: Pass additional options to package manager (not recommended)

Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org>

Michael Sterrett [contributor] <mr_bones_@gentoo.org>

Scott Taylor [contributor] <swtaylor@gentoo.org>

Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>

Version 2 based on ideas from python-updater.

* Rebuild packages after a perl upgrade:

$> perl-cleaner --all

* Rebuild packages after changing the debug or ithreads useflag of perl:

$> perl-cleaner --all