Patching a perl port

Erwin Lansing erwin at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 24 23:33:00 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:42:51PM -0600, Aaron Dalton wrote:

Hi Aaron,

> I am trying to package a Perl module.  One of the files in the 
> distribution needs patching.  I followed the exact same procedure as I did 
> in security/p5-Email-Obfuscate but MAKE keeps generating the file 
> Comments.pm.orig.  No matter what I do to the patch-file, this .orig file 
> keeps showing up!  What am I doing wrong?  I have attached the shar file.
> 

The easiest way, which is what I usually take, is to add a post-patch
target that removes the .orig file

.post-patch
	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/somefile.pl.orig

Cheers,
-erwin

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Erwin Lansing

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