From 4f8ef02eaa8580534cef12a44dbfc822b26786be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas R <atoomic@cpan.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:25:12 -0700
Subject: PACKAGING: add patchlevel.h doc entry

---
 PACKAGING | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'PACKAGING')

diff --git a/PACKAGING b/PACKAGING
index 0c69b87ba6..9b27d07a82 100644
--- a/PACKAGING
+++ b/PACKAGING
@@ -27,4 +27,13 @@ the codebase for this string.
 An alternative strategy would be to skip all porting tests, but many of
 them are useful if additional patches might be applied.
 
+=head1 Customizing patchlevel to advertise your local patches
+
+You can advertise your custom local patches by using patchlevel.h as a
+standalone Perl script.
+
+=head2 Sample usage:
+
+		perl -x patchlevel.h "This is a custom patch"
+
 =cut
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