--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+
+use Config;
+use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname);
+use Cwd;
+
+# List explicitly here the variables you want Configure to
+# generate. Metaconfig only looks for shell variables, so you
+# have to mention them as if they were shell variables, not
+# %Config entries. Thus you write
+# $startperl
+# to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}.
+
+# This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file.
+# This is so that make depend always knows where to find PL derivatives.
+my $origdir = cwd;
+chdir dirname($0);
+my $file = basename($0, '.PL');
+$file .= '.com' if $^O eq 'VMS';
+
+open OUT,">$file" or die "Can't create $file: $!";
+
+print "Extracting $file (with variable substitutions)\n";
+
+# In this section, perl variables will be expanded during extraction.
+# You can use $Config{...} to use Configure variables.
+
+print OUT <<"!GROK!THIS!";
+$Config{startperl}
+ eval 'exec $Config{perlpath} -S \$0 \${1+"\$@"}'
+ if \$running_under_some_shell;
+!GROK!THIS!
+
+use File::Spec;
+
+my $script = File::Spec->catfile(
+ File::Spec->catdir(
+ File::Spec->updir, qw[lib Archive Tar bin]
+ ), "ptardiff");
+
+if (open(IN, $script)) {
+ print OUT <IN>;
+ close IN;
+} else {
+ die "$0: cannot find '$script'\n";
+}
+
+close OUT or die "Can't close $file: $!";
+chmod 0755, $file or die "Can't reset permissions for $file: $!\n";
+exec("$Config{'eunicefix'} $file") if $Config{'eunicefix'} ne ':';
+chdir $origdir;