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- From: Daniel Eriksson <den@abacus.hgs.se>
- Subject: Applying patches to MiNT source
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 12:57:42 +0200 (MET DST)
-
-
- > Okay, color me stupid :-}. I've been trying to apply the patches Eric
- > just sent out to the 1.08 sources from a.a, and getting nowhere. All
- > the chunks have a "before" filename of `1.8' -- presumably a directory
- > name, but I haven't been able to convince patch to treat it as such.
- > Presumably there's some cmd-line option I'm missing, or I haven't got my
- > directories laid out right. Since previous patches have been similarly
- > shaped, I assume that everyone else here already knows how to do this,
- > and I look pretty silly. Can someone bring me up to speed?
- >
- > -sbigham
-
- Here's basicly what I did. Just make sure you've got one of the newer
- versions of patch (f.e. 12g8). You should have no trouble with the
- latest at atari.archive (which is the one I use).
-
- ---
- # Put both mint108s.zoo and the appropriate diffs (diff1819.txt ?) in
- # a suitable directory (/home/sbigham/mint/ for example :-).
- zoo xq// mint108s.zoo
- patch -l < diff1819.txt
- # Unless there's something really wrong with your setup you now should
- # see a lot of "chunk #x succeeded". :-)
- ---
-
- That should do it. The crucial(sp?) part for me is the '-l'-flag for
- patch. It means patch should match line-endings loosely, which
- seems necessary in my setup (a quite Unix-like setup with lots of
- GNU-utilities compiled directly from the original sources (which
- often makes them dislike CR+LF-endings and also makes them handle
- long filenames very well :-)).
-
- Good luck!
-
- -Daniel Eriksson (den@hgs.se)
-