diff --git a/textproc/Makefile b/textproc/Makefile
index dbfd1dd08ff6..b33a4549a92f 100644
--- a/textproc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/Makefile
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-PDF-FromHTML
     SUBDIR += p5-PDF-Writer
     SUBDIR += p5-POE-Filter-XML
+    SUBDIR += p5-POSIX-Regex
     SUBDIR += p5-PPI
     SUBDIR += p5-PPI-HTML
     SUBDIR += p5-Parse-FixedLength
diff --git a/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/Makefile b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..49a1ba235b3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:	p5-POSIX-Regex
+# Date created:		2006-08-19
+# Whom:			Gea-Suan Lin <gslin@gslin.org>
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	POSIX-Regex
+PORTVERSION=	0.89
+CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
+MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	POSIX
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
+
+MAINTAINER=	gslin@gslin.org
+COMMENT=	OO interface for the gnu regex engine
+
+PERL_CONFIGURE=	yes
+USE_GCC=	3.2+
+
+MAN3=		POSIX::Regex.3
+
+post-patch:
+	${PERL} -pi -e 's/REG_NOERROR/0/g' ${WRKSRC}/Regex.xs
+
+.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
+
+.if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500703
+BUILD_DEPENDS+=	${SITE_PERL}/ExtUtils/Constant.pm:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-ExtUtils-Constant
+.endif
+
+.if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500601
+IGNORE=		requires perl 5.6.x or later. Install lang/perl5 then try again
+.endif
+
+.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/distinfo b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b6fb7efcb2bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 (POSIX-Regex-0.89.tar.gz) = 0b37034a809231c4581476339fa32c39
+SHA256 (POSIX-Regex-0.89.tar.gz) = 08e253fe0c9ac3b5be5f85454e51fd64fad6a21f15b258385bbfd5878794a579
+SIZE (POSIX-Regex-0.89.tar.gz) = 5001
diff --git a/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/pkg-descr b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ea7f000ff351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+This is a port of the glibc gnu regex engine into perl.  There are few
+reasons you would need this.  The few I can think of include:
+
+0) You wish to use untrusted user expressions in such a way as to be
+able to catch errors.  Example:  eval { alarm 2;  m/((){1024}){1024}/ }
+is an instant uncatchable segmentation fault.  GNU's regexps will still
+fail, but in a timeout way rather than an instant segfault way.
+
+1) You wish to have POSIX compliance on ... something ...  Perl's
+regexps are slightly different -- arguably better, but different.
+
+WWW:	http://search.cpan.org/dist/POSIX-Regex/
diff --git a/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/pkg-plist b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4e051a646e24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-POSIX-Regex/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+@comment $FreeBSD$
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/POSIX/Regex.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Regex/.packlist
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Regex/Regex.bs
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Regex/Regex.so
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Regex/autosplit.ix
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Regex
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/POSIX