"net/sendemail" fails after updating Perl

Marco Beishuizen mbeis at xs4all.nl
Mon May 23 19:08:00 UTC 2011


On Mon, 23 May 2011, the wise Jerry wrote:

> OK, I just used the patch and updated the port and all is well.
>
> To patch the port Makefile, cd to /usr/ports/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6 and
> then place the patch into that directory. You can name the patch
> anything you like; ie, New_Make for example. Then as a privileged user
> (root) run: patch <New_Make or whatever you named the patch file. It
> will back up your existing Makefile and distinfo files. You can give
> the "patch" command a "-C" flag to see what it will do without actually
> overwriting anything first if you  want. Now, simply update the port;
> ie, make clean && make deinstall && make reinstall && make distclean.
>
> You will probably have to restart anything that depends on that port
> however for it to take effect. Good luck.
>
> For the PR, I usually use the web based mechanism.
> <http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html>. It is pretty self explanatory.

Yes, all went flawlessly. Spamd now starts without the error. Thanks for 
the help! I'll send the PR too.

Regards,
Marco

-- 
It takes less time to do a thing right
than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
 		-- H. W. Longfellow


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