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=item manifest

[version 0.05]

This is an action intended for use by module authors, not people
installing modules.  It will bring the F<MANIFEST> up to date with the
files currently present in the distribution.  You may use a
F<MANIFEST.SKIP> file to exclude certain files or directories from
inclusion in the F<MANIFEST>.  F<MANIFEST.SKIP> should contain a bunch
of regular expressions, one per line.  If a file in the distribution
directory matches any of the regular expressions, it won't be included
in the F<MANIFEST>.

The following is a reasonable F<MANIFEST.SKIP> starting point, you can
add your own stuff to it:

  ^_build
  ^Build$
  ^blib
  ~$
  \.bak$
  ^MANIFEST\.SKIP$
  CVS

See the L<distcheck> and L<skipcheck> actions if you want to find out
what the C<manifest> action would do, without actually doing anything.

=item manpages

[version 0.28]

This will generate man pages for any binary or library files under
B<blib/> that contain POD.  The man pages will only be installed if the
install paths can be determined from values in C<Config.pm>.  You can
also supply or override install paths by specifying there values on
the command line with the C<bindoc> and C<libdoc> installation
targets.

=item pardist

[version 0.2806]

Generates a PAR binary distribution for use with L<PAR> or L<PAR::Dist>.

It requires that the PAR::Dist module (version 0.17 and up) is
installed on your system.

=item ppd

[version 0.20]

Build a PPD file for your distribution.

This action takes an optional argument C<codebase> which is used in
the generated PPD file to specify the (usually relative) URL of the
distribution.  By default, this value is the distribution name without
any path information.

Example:

  ./Build ppd --codebase "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Module-Build-0.21.tar.gz"

=item ppmdist

[version 0.23]

Generates a PPM binary distribution and a PPD description file.  This
action also invokes the C<ppd> action, so it can accept the same
C<codebase> argument described under that action.

This uses the same mechanism as the C<dist> action to tar & zip its
output, so you can supply C<tar> and/or C<gzip> parameters to affect
the result.

=item prereq_data

[version 0.32]

This action prints out a Perl data structure of all prerequisites and the versions
required.  The output can be loaded again using C<eval()>.  This can be useful for
external tools that wish to query a Build script for prerequisites.

=item prereq_report

[version 0.28]

This action prints out a list of all prerequisites, the versions required, and
the versions actually installed.  This can be useful for reviewing the
configuration of your system prior to a build, or when compiling data to send
for a bug report.

=item pure_install

[version 0.28]

This action is identical to the C<install> action.  In the future,
though, when C<install> starts writing to the file
F<$(INSTALLARCHLIB)/perllocal.pod>, C<pure_install> won't, and that
will be the only difference between them.

=item realclean

[version 0.01]

This action is just like the C<clean> action, but also removes the
C<_build> directory and the C<Build> script.  If you run the
C<realclean> action, you are essentially starting over, so you will
have to re-create the C<Build> script again.

=item retest

[version 0.2806]

This is just like the C<test> action, but doesn't actually build the
distribution first, and doesn't add F<blib/> to the load path, and
therefore will test against a I<previously> installed version of the
distribution.  This can be used to verify that a certain installed
distribution still works, or to see whether newer versions of a
distribution still pass the old regression tests, and so on.

=item skipcheck