On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:10:05 +0100
kilim <kilim@phenix.rootshell.be> wrote:

> Hello,
[...]
> -One package in question has its own 'configure.pl' and its first line
>  is set, surprisingly, to 
> 
>    '#!/some/path/to/perl -w' 
> 
>  Now I can change that to 
>   
>    '#!/usr/pkg/bin/perl -w' 
> 
>  and make a diff, but what happens in the case where somebody's prefix
>  is not '/usr/pkg' but something else ? Is there a way to deal with
>  this ? Essentially making a portable diff, so that it would be
>  ${PREFIX}/bin/perl ? Is there a mechanism for this ?

REPLACE_PERL+= foo.pl # the PATH is relative to WRKSRC 
 
> -Should I submit a pkg via sendpr ? Is that the recommended way ?

Yes, or you can import it into pkgsrc-wip (pkgsrc-wip.sf.net).