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Re: problem building linux specific 1.1.1


Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

|> >>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:
|> 
|> >>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:
|> >> If I moved up one level to apply the patch, I got asked about some
|> >> presumably reversed patches and if they should be applied (to which I
|> >> said no to everything) and got a log slightly larger than the first
|> >> time I did this.
|> 
|> >> Hm... I could try some -p magic, but the diffs in this patch seems to
|> >> have different directory levels... I'll live with the two applications 
|> >> of the patch for now, I think... at least it configured this time.
|> 
|> Thanx to Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@mchp.siemens.de> who told me
|> to use the "-p1 -E" arguments to patch.  That took care of the
|> directory problems.
|> 
|> However I'm still getting the problem of the missing "autoheader"
|> program (on S.u.S.E. 5.3).  Hm... do I need "autoconf" and "GNU m4"
|> installed on the system...?  Some Deja News messages seems to
|> indicate this.

You only need them if you upgrade via a patch, otherwise the timestamps
will be correct.  Btw, if you use the latest version of patch (2.5) you
can use `patch -p1 -T', which causes patch to set the timestamp from the
diff headers.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org


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