Complicated patching

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 2011/05/17, at 18:07, Olli Hauer wrote:

> there is a way, sample ports:
> dns/djbdns, dns/bind94, mail/postfix (VDA patches) and many more

Thanks for the examples.  I'll dig through those and see what I can glean from them.

> A short description can be found in Mk/bsd.port.mk
> A longer description can be found in the porters handbook
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html

I've read through the porters handbook, and this page in particular, but didn't see anything that solved my problem.  I'll have another look though.  

Thanks very much!

> 
> Additional you can place a patch without the prefix "patch-"
> into the portname/files directory, then use for example
> 
> .if defined(PATCH_THIS_FOO)
> EXTRA_PATCHES+=
> .endif