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From: hj412fr@duc220.uni-duisburg.de (Frik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  admission of gross ignorance
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Date: 17 Oct 90 08:47:21 GMT
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	Sigh,
	
	I really feel stupid. I've retreived the X11 R4 sources and unpacked
	the files from tapes 1 through 4. Now I am trying to apply the patches
	in the "fixes" directory, and can't seem to get the "patch" program
	to automatically recognize the name of the file-to-be-patched (which
	is in the patch file itself).
	
	Can anyone who has already done this let me know what I need to type
	in order to apply the patches? I'm stumped.
	
	== Dave Krowitz
	
	P.S. Yes, I am using the version of "patch" supplied in the 
	     ./mit/util directory.

Now, I do not know the version of patch you get in ./mit/util, but the
general rule is:  Use the -p# option to strip off the leading pathname
components, where # is the number of components (counting the leading
slash!) you can do without.  e.g. if the patch says
/hugo/haha/hihi/src/file.c but you have the file in //congo/hoho/src
then go to //congo/hoho and do patch -p4 ...  By the way, the Apollo
patch in /usr/new does not seem to handle the -p option properly: I always get 
source from some server, and install myself, the programs are better
and faster that way!

Martin Anantharaman

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