automation of perl port creation from cpan

[Chris H]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:40:41 +0100 Dave Cottlehuber <dch at skunkwerks.at> wrote

> Hi,
> 
> I have a perl app that I'd like to move to FreeBSD. It currently has a
> whole list of cpan dependencies. Is there any partial automation of
> generating ports from CPAN directly? Something similar to py-pytoport
> for example.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
A quick search on CPAN revealed this:

http://search.cpan.org/~gugu/App-Pm2Port-0.29/lib/App/Pm2Port.pm

(Creates FreeBSD port from Perl module)

I seem to recall something like this also listed in the
[FreeBSD] ports tree.

HTH

--Chris