Managing ports with portupgrade

[Andreas Hauser]

jcm wrote @ Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:53:20 +0100:

> to do parts by hand.  When it comes to gtk, it keeps building perl over and
> over.  Gettext breaks because of libXaw3d, but I found a post on using a
> symlink (which didn't work) so I just downloaded the package.

The perl thingy is because we set the wrong PERL_VER etc. Try to do a

$ use.perl port

A patch for our bsd.port.mk would be:

Index: share/mk/bsd.port.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/src/share/mk/bsd.port.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -p -r1.35 bsd.port.mk
--- share/mk/bsd.port.mk	16 May 2005 09:20:56 -0000	1.35
+++ share/mk/bsd.port.mk	8 Jul 2005 14:52:10 -0000
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ UNAME_v?=FreeBSD 4.8-CURRENT
 UNAME_r?=4.8-CURRENT
 
 # override for bsd.port.mk
-PERL_VERSION?=	5.8.6
-PERL_VER?=	5.8.6
+PERL_VERSION?=	5.8.7
+PERL_VER?=	5.8.7
 
 .makeenv UNAME_s
 .makeenv UNAME_v