Re: patch


Subject: Re: patch
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 16:27:00 CST


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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Matthew Stapleton wrote:

> after downloading a patch what do i do? can i just place it in the
> appropriate dirs and recompile? do i only need to type make or something
> else?
>
>
> Matthew Stapleton

this is how it works on linux:

move the patch to the approriate directory (usually abi)
enter "patch -p0 < this_is_the_patch"
recompile (by typing make)

hope that helps - more information can be obtained with "man patch"

           
                                     sam th
                                     sytobinh@uchicago.edu
                                        
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