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Re: FAQ / Installation documentation
- To: Jonas Rathert <jrt at gmx dot de>
- Subject: Re: FAQ / Installation documentation
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:24:48 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Jonas Rathert wrote:
> If I did the three patches "independently", that means each in it's
> own fresh updated cvs-tree, it's not easy to apply them one after the
> other. And if I do change the files in only one cvs-tree and call
> diff every time I do a specific change (markup, move, libstdc++), the
> patches only work when applied in the right order.
Indeed this mega-patch was a very rare event (though I wouldn't mind
more of these ;-).
Usually we handle interdependent patches by specifiying something like
"...this requires my previous patch to...to be installed..." or by means
of a submit - install - submit - install loop.
> Nope. The test was in faq.html: the href="" to some absolute path --
> the directory on my computer where I store the web-pages. ;-)
Ouch, somehow I missed that in the 120KB diff. :-/
> a patch to fix that problem follows.
Thanks!
Gerald
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