[TriLUG] Diff questions

[Jeremy Portzer]

Hi Roy,

Normally, the command is 
	patch -p0 < filename.diff

Make sure you are cd'd into the source directory before running that. 
The number after the -p option identifies the number of directories to
strip off the filenames in the diff file (in this case zero).  If you
get a bunch of horrible errors after running that, you might need "-p1"
or something.  Often there will be instructions with the diff file
specifying this if necessary.

Hope this helps,

Jeremy

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 09:40, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I have a "n00b" question:
> When someone releases a .diff file, I recognize this as a change that needs to occur to what ever you are compiling (in my case, tkrat). How do you apply this, using "patch"?