diff -urN /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.4-r1.ebuild /usr/local/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.4-r1.ebuild
--- /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.4-r1.ebuild	Sat Aug  7 03:39:30 2004
+++ /usr/local/portage/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.4-r1.ebuild	Wed Aug 18 12:15:25 2004
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 LIBPERL="libperl.so.${PERLSLOT}.${SHORT_PV}"
 LICENSE="Artistic GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc ~sparc ~mips ~alpha ~arm ~hppa ~amd64 ~ia64 ~ppc64 ~s390"
+KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc ~sparc ~mips ~alpha ~arm ~hppa ~amd64 ~ia64 ~ppc64 ~s390 ~macos"
 IUSE="berkdb doc gdbm threads uclibc"
 
 DEPEND="!uclibc? ( sys-apps/groff )
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@
 	# sparc64.
 
 	epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-nonblock.patch
+
+	# Config.pm on Mac OS X defaults to installing some files into
+	# /Network/Library, which fails because /Network is a read-only
+	# file system. Replace this with /System. (Maybe there should be
+	# a USE flag for this).
+	epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-macos-install-dirs.patch
 }
 
 src_configure() {