[Discuss-gnuradio] How to generate patches

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:08:23PM -0500, LRK wrote:
> Soon as I figure out the patches...

Assuming you are building from CVS, and that you have modified the
checked-out code to fix the problem, do this:

  $ cvs diff -u > /tmp/my-patch.patch

Then to test it out before sending it in, do a CVS checkout in a new,
empty directory and apply the patch.

  # in a new, just checked out directory

  $ cd gnuradio-core
  $ patch -p0 --dry-run  </tmp/my-patch.patch

# this should indicate that the patches could have been applied.  
# If it doesn't work, try:

  $ patch -p1 --dry-run </tmp/my-patch.patch

When you get one of these working, then actually apply the patch:

  $ patch -p0 </tmp/my-patch.patch

Then try to build it and check

  $ ../buildit -n

If everything checks out OK, then mail /tmp/my-patch.patch as an
attachment to address@hidden with a bit of a description about
what it does.

Eric