From: David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:36:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: add basic usage info to Porting/corelist.pl
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add basic usage info to Porting/corelist.pl
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diff --git a/Porting/corelist.pl b/Porting/corelist.pl
index b301c83..bb0cf92 100644
--- a/Porting/corelist.pl
+++ b/Porting/corelist.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 #!perl
 # Generates info for Module::CoreList from this perl tree
-# run this from the root of a clean perl tree
+# run this from the root of a perl tree, using the perl built in that tree.
+#
+# Data is on STDOUT.
+#
+# With an optional arg specifying the root of a CPAN mirror, outputs the
+# %upstream and %bug_tracker hashes too.
+
+use 5.010001; # needs Parse::CPAN::Meta
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
@@ -10,11 +17,18 @@ use lib "Porting";
 use Maintainers qw(%Modules files_to_modules);
 use File::Spec;
 
+
 my %lines;
 my %module_to_file;
 my %modlist;
+
+die "usage: $0 [ cpan-mirror/ ]\n" unless @ARGV <= 1;
 my $cpan = shift;
 
+if (! -f 'MANIFEST') {
+    die "Must be run from the root of a clean perl tree\n"
+}
+
 if ($cpan) {
     my $modlistfile
 	= File::Spec->catfile($cpan, 'modules', '02packages.details.txt');