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The best reference is always PR.
Let’s take a look at ports/96304.
See the “post-patch:” section:

post-patch: @${PERL} -pi -e ’s/^our (Ww+);/use vars q($$1);/o;’ -e ’s/^ours+(Ww+)(?!;)/use vars q($$1); $$1/o;’ -e ‘undef $$_ if /^s*(no|use) warnings/o;’ files_you_need_to_patch_for_perl_5.00503
Okay, that should fix lots of ports which broken in perl 5.00503. Examples of error like:

Could not eval ’

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