Re: Applying patches (was Testing GNUMail under Linux/Gentoo)

[René Berber]

On 2003-05-09 16:17:48 -0500 Catherine Luedecker <luedchic@attbi.com> wrote:

> Oh it is me again, I am having trouble applying the patch to by gnustep-back 
> using the link found below. the command I used was patch -p0 < 
> gnustep-back-art-freetype213-0.8.5.patch
> but I get an error.
> patch -p0 < /home/catherine/gnustep-back-art-freetype213-0.8.5.patch
> can't find file to patch at input line 4
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -ur gnustep-back-0.8.5-orig/Source/art/ftfont.m 
> gnustep-back-0.8.5/Source/art/ftfont.m
> |--- gnustep-back-0.8.5-orig/Source/art/ftfont.m        Mon Feb 10 10:46:06 
> 2003
> |+++ gnustep-back-0.8.5/Source/art/ftfont.m     Sun Apr 20 00:48:51 2003

To apply the patch with the command you used you must first cd into the source 
code directory, in this case gnustep-back-0.8.5
-- 
René Berber