Re: How are diff patches applied

[Kees de Bruin <kees_de_bruin@tasking.com>]

>>>>> "HP" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

 HP> There doesn't seem to be a single word of instuction with the diff
 HP> patches. No readmes at the website where they are stockpiled either.
 HP> Can someone point me to some HOWTO on this?

You need to have the GNU patch utility installed on your system. I assume
that you are running on a Unix system, so you can do the following (all
filenames are related to my own situation):

1. Save the diff file some place, e.g.

	~/emacs/sources/patches/qgnus-0.28-0.29.diff

2. Go to your QGnus directory

	cd ~/emacs/qgnus

3. Apply the diff file using patch

	patch -p1 -sE < ~/emacs/sources/patches/qgnus-0.28-0.29.diff

   This will skip the first directory in the diff file (-p1) and will be
   silent except for error messages and such. You will now have a number of
   .orig files (the original files)

4. Run make again to byte-compile the sources.

5. If the patch utility is not installed, look for it at one of the many
   GNU mirror sites.

Hope this helps.

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