For small ports not so much, but when updating bigger ones with lots of patches and/or churn, I always find cumbersome to go scroll back in my terminal to look for failed hunks or cd into WRKSRC and look for .rej files, so here's a diff that prints the list of failed patches iff there are any, e.g.,
$ make patch ... Hunk #1 succeeded at 22. done ===> Failed patches: patch-src_tests_hitch_test_sh *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2793 '/usr/ports/pobj/hitch-1.5.2/.patch_done': @if cd /p/security/hitch/patches ...) *** Error 2 in /p/security/hitch (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2581 'patch': @lock=hitch-1.5.2; export _LOCKS_HELD=" hitch-1.5....) It seems that 'echo' is used for errors in bsd.port.mk targets instead of ${ECHO_MSG}, but other shell syntax seem used inconsistently, so I just went with 'echo' to always print the error/list and used && instead of if/else as is with the `error' variable. I'm also deliberately using backslashes and the fact that sh's echo interprets them instead of doing a for loop over $failed_patches in the end. Feedback? OK? Index: infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk,v retrieving revision 1.1540 diff -u -p -r1.1540 bsd.port.mk --- infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk 9 Jun 2020 11:01:08 -0000 1.1540 +++ infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk 13 Jun 2020 16:39:43 -0000 @@ -2758,6 +2758,7 @@ ${_PATCH_COOKIE}: ${_EXTRACT_COOKIE} @${_MAKE} _internal-distpatch . endif @if cd ${PATCHDIR} 2>/dev/null || [ x"${PATCH_LIST:M/*}" != x"" ]; then \ + failed_patches=''; \ error=false; \ for i in ${PATCH_LIST}; do \ case $$i in \ @@ -2773,6 +2774,7 @@ ${_PATCH_COOKIE}: ${_EXTRACT_COOKIE} if [ -s $$i ]; then \ ${_PBUILD} ${PATCH} ${PATCH_ARGS} < $$i || \ { echo "***> $$i did not apply cleanly"; \ + failed_patches="$$failed_patches\n $$i"; \ error=true; }; \ else \ ${ECHO_MSG} "===> Ignoring empty patchfile $$i"; \ @@ -2786,6 +2788,7 @@ ${_PATCH_COOKIE}: ${_EXTRACT_COOKIE} ;; \ esac; \ done;\ + [ -n "$$failed_patches" ] && echo "===> Failed patches: $$failed_patches\n"; \ if $$error; then exit 1; fi; \ fi # End of PATCH.