branch master updated: * Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README: explain how test_scripts/*.sh can be modified by a sed one liner to be usable when using Makefile.PL.

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can be modified by a sed one liner to be usable when using Makefile.PL.
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commit 3b91d37d91d31dbba559414939493c4ad015d1fc
Author: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
AuthorDate: Sat Apr 20 17:30:25 2024 +0200

    * Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README: explain how test_scripts/*.sh can be
    modified by a sed one liner to be usable when using Makefile.PL.
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 ChangeLog                 |  5 +++++
 Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 104b4ac2ec..9a2fd07526 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2024-04-20  Patrice Dumas  <pertusus@free.fr>
+
+       * Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README: explain how test_scripts/*.sh can be
+       modified by a sed one liner to be usable when using Makefile.PL.
+
 2024-04-20  Patrice Dumas  <pertusus@free.fr>
 
        * Pod-Simple-Texinfo/pod2texi.pl (BEGIN): detect the case of a
diff --git a/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README b/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README
index 20865e3d57..dd5a72a680 100644
--- a/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README
+++ b/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/README
@@ -31,9 +31,20 @@ distribute the module using Makefile.PL as described here.
 
 The pod2texi script is usually set up using the Autoconf and Automake
 built environment from pod2texi.pl.  When using Makefile.PL from version
-control sources, pod2texi.pl file should be copied instead, as explained above.
-In that case, the Texinfo::Parser modules will not be searched for as in the
-GNU Texinfo usual case, only in the perl paths, as in other perl modules.
+control sources, the pod2texi.pl file should be copied instead, as explained
+above.  In that case, the Texinfo::Parser modules will not be searched for as
+in the GNU Texinfo usual case, only in the perl paths, as in other perl
+modules.
+
+The test_scripts/*.sh test scripts are setup to work with the Autoconf and
+Automake built environment, they are not distributed when using Makefile.PL.
+To be able to run them manually from version control sources when using
+Makefile.PL, you can do something like the following, with a sed command
+that understands -i to modify the scripts such that they do not need the
+defs file present in the Autoconf and Automake built environment:
+for script in test_scripts/*.sh; do
+  sed -i -e 's;^\. \$testdir/\.\./tp/defs.*;#&\nPERL=perl;' $script;
+done
 
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