On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 02:28:36PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> I use this often enough while figuring out details of some perl tooling,
> such as why update-plist is not quite doing what I want

Sure, if this helps you.

ok tb (or I'll commit a bit later)

> 
> 
> Index: README.internals
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /vide/cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/README.internals,v
> diff -u -p -r1.19 README.internals
> --- README.internals	10 Aug 2023 18:50:58 -0000	1.19
> +++ README.internals	4 Dec 2025 13:26:54 -0000
> @@ -425,6 +425,9 @@ _SHSCRIPT: prepend to a shell script in 
>  
>  _PERLSCRIPT: likewise for perl scripts.
>  
> +_PERLDSCRIPT: (unused) variation of _PERLSCRIPT for debugging a script,
> +	runs through perl -d
> +
>  _ALL_VARIABLES _ALL_VARIABLES_INDEXED _ALL_VARIABLES_PER_ARCH:
>  	stuff to dump in dump-vars. First is "simple" variable, second one
>  	will depend on the subpackage, and for last one, must iterate
> Index: pkgpath.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /vide/cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/pkgpath.mk,v
> diff -u -p -r1.89 pkgpath.mk
> --- pkgpath.mk	12 Nov 2023 12:55:08 -0000	1.89
> +++ pkgpath.mk	4 Dec 2025 13:25:30 -0000
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ DANGEROUS ?= No
>  LOCALBASE ?= /usr/local
>  
>  _PERLSCRIPT = /usr/bin/perl ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/bin
> +_PERLDSCRIPT = /usr/bin/perl -d ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/bin
>  
>  .if !defined(PKGPATH)
>  PKGPATH != PORTSDIR_PATH=${PORTSDIR_PATH} \