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Re: FAQ / Installation documentation


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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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/


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