diff --git a/benchmarks/dbench/Makefile b/benchmarks/dbench/Makefile
index d335d3eeec44..dcc56e9e4669 100644
--- a/benchmarks/dbench/Makefile
+++ b/benchmarks/dbench/Makefile
@@ -15,13 +15,10 @@ COMMENT=	A simulation of the Ziff-Davis netbench benchmark
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/dbench
 USE_REINPLACE=	yes
-
-post-patch:
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/^CFLAGS.+//g' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
+MAKE_ARGS=	CC="${CC}" CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
+PLIST_FILES=	dbench tbench tbench_srv
 
 do-install:
-	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/dbench ${PREFIX}/bin/dbench
-	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/tbench ${PREFIX}/bin/tbench
-	${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/tbench_srv ${PREFIX}/bin/tbench_srv
+	cd ${WRKSRC} && ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${PLIST_FILES} ${PREFIX}/bih
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/benchmarks/dbench/files/patch-ac b/benchmarks/dbench/files/patch-ac
deleted file mode 100644
index cd235a139c9c..000000000000
--- a/benchmarks/dbench/files/patch-ac
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- Makefile.orig	Sun Sep  9 21:21:01 2001
-+++ Makefile	Thu Aug 22 20:21:37 2002
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
- VERSION = 1.2.01
- 
--CC = gcc
--CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall 
-+CC ?= gcc
-+
- CPPFLAGS = "-DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\""
- 
- DB_OBJS = fileio.o util.o dbench.o child.o
-@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
- all: dbench tbench tbench_srv
- 
- dbench: $(DB_OBJS)
--	$(CC) -o $@ $(DB_OBJS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(DB_OBJS)
- 
- tbench: $(TB_OBJS)
--	$(CC) -o $@ $(TB_OBJS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(TB_OBJS)
- 
- tbench_srv: $(SRV_OBJS)
--	$(CC) -o $@ $(SRV_OBJS)
-+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(SRV_OBJS)
- 
- clean:
- 	rm -f *.o *~ dbench tbench tbench_srv
diff --git a/benchmarks/dbench/pkg-plist b/benchmarks/dbench/pkg-plist
deleted file mode 100644
index f8db3ffe1665..000000000000
--- a/benchmarks/dbench/pkg-plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bin/dbench
-bin/tbench
-bin/tbench_srv
diff --git a/comms/snooper/Makefile b/comms/snooper/Makefile
index 57ba1f23e420..41be9564d568 100644
--- a/comms/snooper/Makefile
+++ b/comms/snooper/Makefile
@@ -18,14 +18,8 @@ COMMENT=	Serial line protocol analyzer (need two serial interfaces)
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}/build
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-
-post-extract:
-	@${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/.depend
-
-post-install:
-.if !defined(NOPORTDOCS)
-	@${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/share/doc/snooper
-	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/../README ${PREFIX}/share/doc/snooper
-.endif
+MAKE_ARGS=	OPTFLAG=""
+PLIST_FILES=	bin/snooper
+PORTDOCS=	README
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/comms/snooper/files/patch-ab b/comms/snooper/files/patch-ab
deleted file mode 100644
index 2686334d17b9..000000000000
--- a/comms/snooper/files/patch-ab
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- Makefile.in.orig	Wed Aug 12 23:31:56 1998
-+++ Makefile.in	Thu Jan 18 02:54:00 2001
-@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
- srcdir=@srcdir@/..
- CC=	@CC@
- OPTFLAG=@OPTFLAG@
--CFLAGS=	-c $(OPTFLAG) -I. -I$(srcdir)/include @CFLAGS@
-+CFLAGS=	-c -I. -I$(srcdir)/include @CFLAGS@
- LDFLAGS=@LDFLAGS@
- INSTALL=@INSTALL@
- 
-@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
- uucplock.o:	../src/uucplock.c
- 
- depend:
--	mkdep ${CFLAGS:M-[ID]*} $(srcdir)/src/*.c
-+#	mkdep ${CFLAGS:M-[ID]*} $(srcdir)/src/*.c
- 
- install:
- 	[ -d $(bindir) ] || (mkdir $(bindir))
diff --git a/comms/snooper/pkg-plist b/comms/snooper/pkg-plist
deleted file mode 100644
index dff01482eb7a..000000000000
--- a/comms/snooper/pkg-plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bin/snooper
-%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/README
-%%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm %%DOCSDIR%%
diff --git a/comms/zmtx-zmrx/Makefile b/comms/zmtx-zmrx/Makefile
index 9dddae9a0caf..6bb2a396e286 100644
--- a/comms/zmtx-zmrx/Makefile
+++ b/comms/zmtx-zmrx/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS=	|sh
 NO_WRKSUBDIR=	yes
 MAKEFILE=	makefile
 MAN1=		zmrx.1 zmtx.1
+PLIST_FILES=	bin/zmrx bin/zmtx
 
 do-install:
 .for f in zmrx zmtx
diff --git a/comms/zmtx-zmrx/pkg-plist b/comms/zmtx-zmrx/pkg-plist
deleted file mode 100644
index cc3bcdc612d3..000000000000
--- a/comms/zmtx-zmrx/pkg-plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-@comment $FreeBSD$
-bin/zmrx
-bin/zmtx