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-rw-r--r--docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt10
-rwxr-xr-xutils/scancpan1
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
index eb14d9de18..6ce693fd6e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-perl.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ with an example :
10: PERL_FOO_BAR_DEPENDENCIES = perl-strictures
11: PERL_FOO_BAR_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+
12: PERL_FOO_BAR_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
-13:
-14: $(eval $(perl-package))
+13: PERL_FOO_BAR_DISTNAME = Foo-Bar
+14:
+15: $(eval $(perl-package))
------------------------
On line 7, we declare the version of the package.
@@ -40,7 +41,10 @@ On line 11 and 12, we give licensing details about the package (its
license on line 11, and the file containing the license text on line
12).
-Finally, on line 14, we invoke the +perl-package+ macro that
+On line 13, the name of the distribution as needed by the script
++utils/scancpan+ (in order to regenerate/upgrade these package files).
+
+Finally, on line 15, we invoke the +perl-package+ macro that
generates all the Makefile rules that actually allow the package to be
built.
diff --git a/utils/scancpan b/utils/scancpan
index 6b810fdb68..7c1e4236f9 100755
--- a/utils/scancpan
+++ b/utils/scancpan
@@ -745,6 +745,7 @@ while (my ($distname, $dist) = each %dist) {
say {$fh} qq{HOST_${brname}_DEPENDENCIES = ${host_dependencies}} if $need_host{$distname} && $host_dependencies;
say {$fh} qq{${brname}_LICENSE = ${license}} if $license;
say {$fh} qq{${brname}_LICENSE_FILES = ${license_files}} if $license_files;
+ say {$fh} qq{${brname}_DISTNAME = ${distname}};
say {$fh} qq{};
say {$fh} qq{\$(eval \$(perl-package))} if $need_target{$distname};
say {$fh} qq{\$(eval \$(host-perl-package))} if $need_host{$distname};
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