Hi all, I'm having some difficulty understanding patching in general. A little background: I downloaded the source tarball for a program and it will not "make" cleanly. Checking the forum on the website, someone had published a patch in the form of text in an email that looks like this: --- mlrate/mlrate.c 2003-01-27 10:31:31.000000000 +0100 +++ mlrate.new/mlrate.c 2004-11-22 12:37:52.086783325 +0100 @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ #include <string.h> ... and continues for a bit longer I assume that I should copy and paste the text into a separate file and save it. But how do I apply the patch to the source file, which is mlrate.c? Also, how do I read the file? From some patch files I have come across, they have "pluses" and "minuses" and other notation. What do they mean? Can someone point me to some URLs where I can understand more about these patch files? Thanks in Advance! -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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