Chong Yu Meng wrote: > 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? Patches are applied via the "patch" command. Normally, it you simply do "patch -p0 < patchfilename" -- Brain damage is all in your head. -- Karl Lehenbauer
