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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit eutils alternatives flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs multilib multiprocessing
+
+PATCH_VER=3
+CROSS_VER=1.1.4
+
+PERL_OLDVERSEN="5.24.0"
+MODULE_AUTHOR=SHAY
+
+SHORT_PV="${PV%.*}"
+MY_P="perl-${PV/_rc/-RC}"
+MY_PV="${PV%_rc*}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language"
+
+SRC_URI="
+	mirror://cpan/src/5.0/${MY_P}.tar.xz
+	mirror://cpan/authors/id/${MODULE_AUTHOR:0:1}/${MODULE_AUTHOR:0:2}/${MODULE_AUTHOR}/${MY_P}.tar.xz
+	https://github.com/gentoo-perl/perl-patchset/releases/download/${MY_P}-patches-${PATCH_VER}/${MY_P}-patches-${PATCH_VER}.tar.xz
+	mirror://gentoo/${MY_P}-patches-${PATCH_VER}.tar.xz
+	https://dev.gentoo.org/~kentnl/distfiles/${MY_P}-patches-${PATCH_VER}.tar.xz
+	https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross/releases/download/${CROSS_VER}/perl-cross-${CROSS_VER}.tar.gz
+"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.perl.org/"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ )"
+SLOT="0/${SHORT_PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+IUSE="berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	berkdb? ( sys-libs/db:= )
+	gdbm? ( >=sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3 )
+	app-arch/bzip2
+	sys-libs/zlib
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	!prefix? ( elibc_FreeBSD? ( sys-freebsd/freebsd-mk-defs ) )
+"
+PDEPEND="
+	>=app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.5
+	>=virtual/perl-File-Path-2.130.0
+	>=virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.230.400-r2
+	>=virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.154.0
+	virtual/perl-Test-Harness
+"
+# bug 390719, bug 523624, bug 620304
+# virtual/perl-Test-Harness is here for the bundled ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+dual_scripts() {
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Archive-Tar        2.40.100_rc   ptar ptardiff ptargrep
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/CPAN               2.110.100_rc  cpan
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Digest-SHA         5.950.100_rc  shasum
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Encode             2.800.100_rc  enc2xs piconv
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker 7.100.200_rc  instmodsh
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS   3.310.0       xsubpp
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/IO-Compress        2.69.1_rc          zipdetails
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/JSON-PP            2.273.0.100_rc     json_pp
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Module-CoreList    5.201.701.142.400_rc  corelist
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Pod-Parser         1.630.0       pod2usage podchecker podselect
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Pod-Perldoc        3.250.300_rc  perldoc
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/Test-Harness       3.360.100_rc  prove
+	src_remove_dual      perl-core/podlators          4.70.0        pod2man pod2text
+	src_remove_dual_man  perl-core/podlators          4.70.0        /usr/share/man/man1/perlpodstyle.1
+}
+
+check_rebuild() {
+	# Fresh install
+	if [[ -z "${REPLACING_VERSIONS}" ]]; then
+		return 0;
+	# Major Upgrade
+	# doesn't matter if there's multiple copies, it still needs a rebuild
+	# if the string is anything other than "5.CURRENTMAJOR"
+	elif [[ "${REPLACING_VERSIONS%.*}" != "${PV%.*}" ]]; then
+		echo ""
+		ewarn "UPDATE THE PERL MODULES:"
+		ewarn "After updating dev-lang/perl the installed Perl modules"
+		ewarn "have to be re-installed. In most cases, this is done automatically"
+		ewarn "by the package manager, but subsequent steps are still recommended"
+		ewarn "to ensure system consistency."
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "You should start with a depclean to remove any unused perl dependencies"
+		ewarn "that may confuse portage in future. Regular depcleans are also encouraged"
+		ewarn "as part of your regular update cycle, as that will keep perl upgrades working."
+		ewarn "Recommended: emerge --depclean -va"
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "You should then call perl-cleaner to clean up any old files and trigger any"
+		ewarn "remaining rebuilds portage may have missed."
+		ewarn "Use: perl-cleaner --all"
+		return 0;
+
+	# Reinstall w/ USE Change
+	elif (   use ithreads && ! has_version dev-lang/perl[ithreads] ) || \
+	     ( ! use ithreads &&   has_version dev-lang/perl[ithreads] ) || \
+	     (   use debug    && ! has_version dev-lang/perl[debug]    ) || \
+	     ( ! use debug    &&   has_version dev-lang/perl[debug]    ) ; then
+		echo ""
+		ewarn "TOGGLED USE-FLAGS WARNING:"
+		ewarn "You changed one of the use-flags ithreads or debug."
+		ewarn "You must rebuild all perl-modules installed."
+		ewarn "Use: perl-cleaner --modules ; perl-cleaner --force --libperl"
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	case ${CHOST} in
+		*-freebsd*)   osname="freebsd" ;;
+		*-dragonfly*) osname="dragonfly" ;;
+		*-netbsd*)    osname="netbsd" ;;
+		*-openbsd*)   osname="openbsd" ;;
+		*-darwin*)    osname="darwin" ;;
+		*-interix*)   osname="interix" ;;
+		*-aix*)       osname="aix" ;;
+		*-cygwin*)    osname="cygwin" ;;
+		*)            osname="linux" ;;
+	esac
+
+	myarch="${CHOST%%-*}-${osname}"
+	if use debug ; then
+		myarch+="-debug"
+	fi
+	if use ithreads ; then
+		mythreading="-multi"
+		myarch+="-thread"
+	fi
+
+	LIBPERL="libperl$(get_libname ${MY_PV} )"
+	PRIV_LIB="/usr/$(get_libdir)/perl5/${MY_PV}"
+	ARCH_LIB="/usr/$(get_libdir)/perl5/${MY_PV}/${myarch}${mythreading}"
+	SITE_LIB="/usr/local/$(get_libdir)/perl5/${MY_PV}"
+	SITE_ARCH="/usr/local/$(get_libdir)/perl5/${MY_PV}/${myarch}${mythreading}"
+	VENDOR_LIB="/usr/$(get_libdir)/perl5/vendor_perl/${MY_PV}"
+	VENDOR_ARCH="/usr/$(get_libdir)/perl5/vendor_perl/${MY_PV}/${myarch}${mythreading}"
+
+	dual_scripts
+}
+
+src_remove_dual_file() {
+	local i pkg ver
+	pkg="$1"
+	ver="$2"
+	shift 2
+	case "${EBUILD_PHASE:-none}" in
+		postinst|postrm)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				alternatives_auto_makesym "${i}" "${i}-[0-9]*"
+			done
+			;;
+		setup)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				if [[ -f ${EROOT}${i} && ! -h ${EROOT}${i} ]] ; then
+					has_version ${pkg} && ewarn "You must reinstall ${pkg} !"
+					break
+				fi
+			done
+			;;
+		install)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				if ! [[ -f "${ED}"${i} ]] ; then
+					ewarn "${i} does not exist!"
+					continue
+				fi
+				mv "${ED}"${i}{,-${ver}-${P}} || die
+			done
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+src_remove_dual_man() {
+	local i pkg ver ff
+	pkg="$1"
+	ver="$2"
+	shift 2
+	case "${EBUILD_PHASE:-none}" in
+		postinst|postrm)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				ff=`echo "${EROOT}${i%.[0-9]}-${ver}-${P}${i#${i%.[0-9]}}"*`
+				ff=${ff##*${i#${i%.[0-9]}}}
+				alternatives_auto_makesym "${i}${ff}" "${i%.[0-9]}-[0-9]*"
+			done
+			;;
+		install)
+			for i in "$@" ; do
+				if ! [[ -f "${ED}"${i} ]] ; then
+					ewarn "${i} does not exist!"
+					continue
+				fi
+				mv "${ED}"${i} "${ED}"${i%.[0-9]}-${ver}-${P}${i#${i%.[0-9]}} || die
+			done
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+src_remove_dual() {
+	local i pkg ver
+	pkg="$1"
+	ver="$2"
+	shift 2
+	for i in "$@" ; do
+		src_remove_dual_file  "${pkg}" "${ver}" "/usr/bin/${i}"
+		src_remove_dual_man   "${pkg}" "${ver}" "/usr/share/man/man1/${i}.1"
+	done
+}
+
+src_prepare_update_patchlevel_h() {
+	# Copied and modified from debian:
+	# Copyright 2011 Niko Tyni
+	# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+	# it under the same terms as Perl itself.
+	local patchdir="${WORKDIR}/patches"
+	local prefix
+	local patchoutput="patchlevel-gentoo.h"
+
+	[[ -f ${patchdir}/series ]] || return 0
+
+while read patch
+do
+	patchname=$(echo $patch | sed 's/\.diff$//')
+	< $patchdir/$patch sed -e '/^Subject:/ { N; s/\n / / }' | sed -n -e '
+
+	# massage the patch headers
+	s|^Bug: .*https\?://rt\.perl\.org/.*id=\(.*\).*|[perl #\1]|; tprepend;
+	s|^Bug: .*https\?://rt\.cpan\.org/.*id=\(.*\).*|[rt.cpan.org #\1]|; tprepend;
+	s|^Bug-Gentoo: ||; tprepend;
+	s/^\(Subject\|Description\): //; tappend;
+	s|^Origin: .*http://perl5\.git\.perl\.org/perl\.git/commit\(diff\)\?/\(.......\).*|[\2]|; tprepend;
+
+	# post-process at the end of input
+	$ { x;
+		# include the version number in the patchlevel.h description (if available)
+		s/List packaged patches/&'" for ${PF}(#${PATCH_VER})"'/;
+
+		# escape any backslashes and double quotes
+		s|\\|\\\\|g; s|"|\\"|g;
+
+		# add a prefix
+		s|^|\t,"'"$prefix$patchname"' - |;
+		# newlines away
+		s/\n/ /g; s/  */ /g;
+		# add a suffix
+		s/ *$/"/; p
+	};
+	# stop all processing
+	d;
+	# label: append to the hold space
+	:append H; d;
+	# label: prepend to the hold space
+	:prepend x; H; d;
+	'
+done < "${WORKDIR}"/patches/series > "${S}/${patchoutput}"
+echo "${patchoutput}" >> "${S}/MANIFEST"
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	local patch
+	EPATCH_OPTS+=" -p1"
+	einfo "Applying patches from ${MY_P}-${PATCH_VER} ..."
+	while read patch ; do
+		EPATCH_SINGLE_MSG="  ${patch} ..."
+		epatch "${WORKDIR}"/patches/${patch}
+	done < "${WORKDIR}"/patches/series
+
+	src_prepare_update_patchlevel_h
+
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		cp -a ../perl-cross-${CROSS_VER}/* . || die
+
+		sed -i \
+			-e 's/(15 + $CLEANUP)/(13 + $CLEANUP)/' \
+			cnf/diffs/perl5-${PV}/makemaker-test.patch || die
+
+		sed -i \
+			-e 's/MakeMaker\.pm .*/MakeMaker.pm bf9174c70a0e50ff2fee4552c7df89b37d292da1/' \
+			-e 's/MM_Unix\.pm .*/MM_Unix.pm b0ec308fe2d7dcfcef5732880db0fae1f4ea80fa/' \
+			cnf/diffs/perl5-${PV}/customized.patch || die
+
+		sed -i \
+			-e 's|^lib/unicore/CombiningClass.pl pod/perluniprops.pod:|lib/unicore/CombiningClass.pl pod/perluniprops.pod: $(CONFIGPM)|' \
+			Makefile || die
+
+		# bug 604072
+		MAKEOPTS+=" -j1"
+		export MAKEOPTS
+	fi
+
+	if ! tc-is-static-only ; then
+		ln -s ${LIBPERL} libperl$(get_libname ${SHORT_PV}) || die
+		ln -s ${LIBPERL} libperl$(get_libname ) || die
+	fi
+
+	if use gdbm; then
+		sed -i "s:INC => .*:INC => \"-I${EROOT}usr/include/gdbm\":g" \
+			ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL || die
+	fi
+
+	default
+}
+
+myconf() {
+	# the myconf array is declared in src_configure
+	myconf=( "${myconf[@]}" "$@" )
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	declare -a myconf
+
+	export LC_ALL="C"
+	[[ ${COLUMNS:-1} -ge 1 ]] || unset COLUMNS # bug #394091
+
+	# some arches and -O do not mix :)
+	use ppc && replace-flags -O? -O1
+
+	# Perl has problems compiling with -Os in your flags with glibc
+	use elibc_uclibc || replace-flags "-Os" "-O2"
+
+	# This flag makes compiling crash in interesting ways
+	filter-flags "-malign-double"
+
+	# Fixes bug #97645
+	use ppc && filter-flags "-mpowerpc-gpopt"
+
+	# Fixes bug #143895 on gcc-4.1.1
+	filter-flags "-fsched2-use-superblocks"
+
+	use sparc && myconf -Ud_longdbl
+
+	export BUILD_BZIP2=0
+	export BZIP2_INCLUDE=${EROOT}/usr/include
+	export BZIP2_LIB=${EROOT}/usr/$(get_libdir)
+
+	export BUILD_ZLIB=False
+	export ZLIB_INCLUDE=${EROOT}/usr/include
+	export ZLIB_LIB=${EROOT}/usr/$(get_libdir)
+
+	# allow either gdbm to provide ndbm (in <gdbm/ndbm.h>) or db1
+	myndbm='U'
+	mygdbm='U'
+	mydb='U'
+	if use gdbm ; then
+		mygdbm='D'
+		if use berkdb ; then
+			myndbm='D'
+		fi
+	fi
+	if use berkdb ; then
+		mydb='D'
+		has_version '=sys-libs/db-1*' && myndbm='D'
+	fi
+
+	myconf "-${myndbm}i_ndbm" "-${mygdbm}i_gdbm" "-${mydb}i_db"
+
+	if use alpha && [[ "$(tc-getCC)" = "ccc" ]] ; then
+		ewarn "Perl will not be built with berkdb support, use gcc if you needed it..."
+		myconf -Ui_db -Ui_ndbm
+	fi
+
+	use ithreads && myconf -Dusethreads
+
+	if use debug ; then
+		append-cflags "-g"
+		myconf -DDEBUGGING
+	elif [[ ${CFLAGS} == *-g* ]] ; then
+		myconf -DDEBUGGING=-g
+	else
+		myconf -DDEBUGGING=none
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -n ${PERL_OLDVERSEN} ]] ; then
+		local inclist=$(for v in ${PERL_OLDVERSEN}; do echo -n "${v}/${myarch}${mythreading} ${v} "; done )
+		myconf -Dinc_version_list="${inclist}"
+	fi
+
+	[[ ${ELIBC} == "FreeBSD" ]] && myconf "-Dlibc=/usr/$(get_libdir)/libc.a"
+
+	# Make sure we can do the final link #523730, need to set deployment
+	# target to override hardcoded 10.3 which breaks on modern OSX
+	[[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] && \
+		myconf "-Dld=env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=${MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET} $(tc-getCC)"
+
+	# Prefix: the host system needs not to follow Gentoo multilib stuff, and in
+	# Prefix itself we don't do multilib either, so make sure perl can find
+	# something compatible.
+	if use prefix ; then
+		# Set a hook to check for each detected library whether it actually works.
+		export libscheck="
+			( echo 'main(){}' > '${T}'/conftest.c &&
+			  $(tc-getCC) -o '${T}'/conftest '${T}'/conftest.c -l\$thislib >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+			) || xxx=/dev/null"
+
+		# Use all host paths that might contain useful stuff, the hook above will filter out bad choices.
+		local paths="/lib/*-linux-gnu /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu /lib64 /lib/64 /usr/lib64 /usr/lib/64 /lib32 /usr/lib32 /lib /usr/lib"
+		myconf "-Dlibpth=${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir) ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir) ${paths}"
+	elif [[ $(get_libdir) != "lib" ]] ; then
+		# We need to use " and not ', as the written config.sh use ' ...
+		myconf "-Dlibpth=/usr/local/$(get_libdir) /$(get_libdir) /usr/$(get_libdir)"
+	fi
+
+	# don't try building ODBM, bug #354453
+	disabled_extensions="ODBM_File"
+
+	if ! use gdbm ; then
+		# workaround for bug #157774: don't try building GDBM related stuff with USE="-gdbm"
+		disabled_extensions="${disabled_extensions} GDBM_File NDBM_File"
+	fi
+
+	myconf -Dnoextensions="${disabled_extensions}"
+
+	[[ -n "${EXTRA_ECONF}" ]] && ewarn During Perl build, EXTRA_ECONF=${EXTRA_ECONF}
+	# allow fiddling via EXTRA_ECONF, bug 558070
+	eval "local -a EXTRA_ECONF=(${EXTRA_ECONF})"
+
+	myconf \
+		-Duseshrplib \
+		-Darchname="${myarch}" \
+		-Dcc="$(tc-getCC)" \
+		-Doptimize="${CFLAGS}" \
+		-Dldflags="${LDFLAGS}" \
+		-Dprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr' \
+		-Dsiteprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr/local' \
+		-Dvendorprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr' \
+		-Dscriptdir="${EPREFIX}"'/usr/bin' \
+		-Dprivlib="${EPREFIX}${PRIV_LIB}" \
+		-Darchlib="${EPREFIX}${ARCH_LIB}" \
+		-Dsitelib="${EPREFIX}${SITE_LIB}" \
+		-Dsitearch="${EPREFIX}${SITE_ARCH}" \
+		-Dvendorlib="${EPREFIX}${VENDOR_LIB}" \
+		-Dvendorarch="${EPREFIX}${VENDOR_ARCH}" \
+		-Dman1dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man1 \
+		-Dman3dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man3 \
+		-Dsiteman1dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/local/man/man1 \
+		-Dsiteman3dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/local/man/man3 \
+		-Dvendorman1dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man1 \
+		-Dvendorman3dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man/man3 \
+		-Dman1ext='1' \
+		-Dman3ext='3pm' \
+		-Dlibperl="${LIBPERL}" \
+		-Dlocincpth="${EPREFIX}"'/usr/include ' \
+		-Dglibpth="${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir) ${EPREFIX}/usr/$(get_libdir)"' ' \
+		-Duselargefiles \
+		-Dd_semctl_semun \
+		-Dcf_by='Gentoo' \
+		-Dmyhostname='localhost' \
+		-Dperladmin='root@localhost' \
+		-Ud_csh \
+		-Dsh="${EPREFIX}"/bin/sh \
+		-Dtargetsh="${EPREFIX}"/bin/sh \
+		-Uusenm \
+		"${myconf[@]}" \
+		"${EXTRA_ECONF[@]}"
+
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		./configure \
+			--target="${CHOST}" \
+			--build="${CBUILD}" \
+			-Dinstallprefix='' \
+			-Dinstallusrbinperl='undef' \
+			-Dusevendorprefix='define' \
+			"${myconf[@]}" \
+			|| die "Unable to configure"
+	else
+		sh Configure \
+			-des \
+			-Dinstallprefix="${EPREFIX}"'/usr' \
+			-Dinstallusrbinperl='n' \
+			"${myconf[@]}" \
+			|| die "Unable to configure"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	export NO_GENTOO_NETWORK_TESTS=1;
+	if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
+		ewarn "Test fails with a sandbox error (#328793) if run as root. Skipping tests..."
+		return 0
+	fi
+	use elibc_uclibc && export MAKEOPTS+=" -j1"
+	TEST_JOBS="$(makeopts_jobs)" make test_harness || die "test failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	local i
+	local coredir="${ARCH_LIB}/CORE"
+
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	rm -f "${ED}/usr/bin/perl${MY_PV}"
+	ln -s perl "${ED}"/usr/bin/perl${MY_PV} || die
+
+	if ! tc-is-static-only ; then
+		dolib.so "${ED}"${coredir}/${LIBPERL}
+		rm -f "${ED}"${coredir}/${LIBPERL}
+		ln -sf ${LIBPERL} "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libperl$(get_libname ${SHORT_PV}) || die
+		ln -sf ${LIBPERL} "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libperl$(get_libname) || die
+		ln -sf ../../../../../$(get_libdir)/${LIBPERL} "${ED}"${coredir}/${LIBPERL} || die
+		ln -sf ../../../../../$(get_libdir)/${LIBPERL} "${ED}"${coredir}/libperl$(get_libname ${SHORT_PV}) || die
+		ln -sf ../../../../../$(get_libdir)/${LIBPERL} "${ED}"${coredir}/libperl$(get_libname) || die
+	fi
+
+	rm -rf "${ED}"/usr/share/man/man3 || die "Unable to remove module man pages"
+
+	# This removes ${D} from Config.pm
+	for i in $(find "${D}" -iname "Config.pm" ) ; do
+		einfo "Removing ${D} from ${i}..."
+		sed -i -e "s:${D}::" "${i}" || die "Sed failed"
+	done
+
+	dodoc Changes* README AUTHORS
+
+	if use doc ; then
+		# HTML Documentation
+		# We expect errors, warnings, and such with the following.
+
+		dodir /usr/share/doc/${PF}/html
+		LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./perl installhtml \
+			--podroot='.' \
+			--podpath='lib:ext:pod:vms' \
+			--recurse \
+			--htmldir="${ED}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html"
+	fi
+
+	[[ -d ${ED}/usr/local ]] && rm -r "${ED}"/usr/local
+
+	dual_scripts
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	check_rebuild
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	dual_scripts
+
+	if [[ "${ROOT}" = "/" ]] ; then
+		local INC DIR file
+		INC=$(perl -e 'for $line (@INC) { next if $line eq "."; next if $line =~ m/'${SHORT_PV}'|etc|local|perl$/; print "$line\n" }')
+		einfo "Removing old .ph files"
+		for DIR in ${INC} ; do
+			if [[ -d "${DIR}" ]] ; then
+				for file in $(find "${DIR}" -name "*.ph" -type f ) ; do
+					rm -f "${file}"
+					einfo "<< ${file}"
+				done
+			fi
+		done
+		# Silently remove the now empty dirs
+		for DIR in ${INC} ; do
+			if [[ -d "${DIR}" ]] ; then
+				find "${DIR}" -depth -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -r rmdir &> /dev/null
+			fi
+		done
+
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm(){
+	dual_scripts
+}
diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.0.ebuild
index a029104e4dc98..ab697c5c3dcf7 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.26.0.ebuild
@@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 PDEPEND="
 	>=app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.5
 	>=virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.230.400-r2
+	>=virtual/perl-File-Path-2.130.0
 	>=virtual/perl-Data-Dumper-2.154.0
 	virtual/perl-Test-Harness
 "
-# bug 390719, bug 523624
+# bug 390719, bug 523624, bug 620304
 # virtual/perl-Test-Harness is here for the bundled ExtUtils::MakeMaker
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"