Re: FVWM: FVWM - patching

From: Paul D. Smith <psmith_at_BayNetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 10:50:53 EST

%% Regarding FVWM: FVWM - patching;
%% D.Kennedy_at_Queens-Belfast.AC.UK (David Kennedy) writes:

    dk> More specifically, what program (called patch I presume) do I
    dk> need, where may I get a copy (UK/Europe preferred), and how
    dk> should I go about using it?

Larry Wall's patch program is fantastic; no site should be without it.
It's now distributed by the GNU folks, so look in:

  ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/patch-2.1.tar.gz

(or its mirrors). Like almost all GNU software, it's trivial to build:

  $ <unzip, untar, cd to directory>
  $ ./configure
  $ make intall

Bam. Check out the INSTALL file for details.

Then, save your email or whatever containing the patch to a file and
send it to patch via stdin:

  $ patch < patchfile

Or, if you emailer supports piping messages to commands, you can invoke
it directly from there.

Patch is smart enough to ignore all "non-patch" text, like email
headers, comments by the author, etc. I've never had to trim out any
junk (including .sigs) from a patch before using it.

Check out the man pages, they're very informative. Have fun!

PS. To make a patch, just run diff (preferably "diff -c" or "diff -u")

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