Ports breakage?

[YONETANI Tomokazu]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:59:01PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :walt,
> :
> :please read the following thread in commits at .
> :
> :http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2004-09/index.html#00569
> :
> :The reason is that the new OpenBSD patch command has a different meaning 
> :for the -b option (which is used by ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk). Andreas 
> :Hauser has written a patch that makes it work again:
> :
> :http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFly/inofficial/patches/Mk::bsd.port.mk-patch-suffix.patch
> :
> :Regards,
> :Sascha
> :
> :-- 
> :http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
> 
>     Isn't that a mod of a file in the FreeBSD ports?  Meaning that we can't
>     'fix' it that way.
> 
>     It might be better to make our new patch conform to the old patch's
>     use of -b for now.

Taking a glance at Mk/bsd.port.mk, the simplest workaround at the moment is
to define make variable PATCH to something other than "/usr/bin/patch", like:
# cd /to/your/favorite/port
# make PATCH=patch install

At least it worked for a simple port like shells/bash .