[TriLUG] Diff questions

[Roy Vestal]

Thanks... :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Portzer" <jeremyp at pobox.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Diff questions


> 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"?
>
>
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