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

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Fri, 09 May 2003 14:17:48 -0700
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. 

Use of -pX depends on where the file you want to patch is, relative to
your current path and the specified file-name "inside" the patch file.

  :0> cd ~/src/gnustep/core/back/Source/art
  :0> patch < ~/src/patches/gnustep-back-art-freetype213-0.8.5.patch
  Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
  The text leading up to this was:
  [...]
  Patching file ftfont.m using Plan A...
  Hunk #1 succeeded at 79.
  [...]
  Hunk #12 succeeded at 2059 (offset 9 lines).
  Hmm...  Ignoring the trailing garbage.
  done
  :0>

-- 
Chris