No worries! Uou can apply a patchfile using the patch utility, which
should be installed already. The file debian/patches/series is
probably the order that the packager uses when applying the files. You
can apply them all by running this command from the root of the git
repo:
cat debian/patche
Aha! Apparently this is what you need to do:
1. https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libembperl-perl
2. Download the .tar.gz source file (download button on the right)
3. tar xvfz libembperl-perl-master.tar.gz
4. cd libembperl-perl-master
5. apt-get install quilt
6. export QUILT_PAT
Thanks very much, Nigel. I sent another reply to the list that got
delayed for some reason, but I eventually used quilt to apply the
patches (before I got your post, I found reference to that on some
webpage or other). It worked fine, and I was able to compile Embperl
without errors. It's now worki