On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 01:44 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > To apply this patch you would use the patch program. Usage is > something like this: > > cd /where/your/mlrate/tarball/is/ > patch -p1 < /path/to/your/saved/patch > > The -p1 option tells patch to strip off the first directory when > looking for the file(s) to patch. So if you have a diff that starts > with "--- mlrate/mlrate.c" and you're in the directory where mlrate.c > is, -p1 would remove the mlrate/ part from the diff and find the file > to patch properly. Thanks, all! Let me see if I understand this correctly: I have untarred the source tarball into /usr/src/mlrate, and mlrate.c is now inside /use/src/mlrate/src directory. So, now I copy and paste the text from the forum to a text file (say, mlrate.patch) and save it under /usr/src/mlrate/src. Then I go into the directory /usr/src/mlrate/src and enter the command: patch -p0 < mlrate.patch And the patch command will know what to do and patch it. Then I can run "make" and "make install" as per usual? Thanks and Regards. -- 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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