FVWM: mini archive site for cool patches :-)

From: Andrew Veliath <veliaa_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:18:08 -0500

    Marina> Looks like a new-style context diff. Malformed patch at
    Marina> line 48: patch: Line must begin with '+ ', ' ', or '! '.

    Marina> line 48 is Only in fvwm-2.0.43/: Makefile

    Marina> If I delete this line it happens anyway for empty lines
    Marina> and lines starting with diff. Sorry, this is the first
    Marina> time I try to apply a patch....

    Marina> What should I do? Edit the patch file? How?

One should normally delete links and pass the output of a diff into a
grep -v "Only in" if there are other files present (that patch was not
made by me).

Try something like (providing your grep supports -v).

grep -v "Only in" < fvwm-2.0.43.tbsp9b.wsp1a.miniicons.patch | patch -p0

Andrew

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