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Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net> writes: |> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 rajukv@fan.com wrote: |> |> > hi, |> > |> > How do I apply a patch on a egcs snapshot? for eg i have the previous snapshot distribution egcs-19990221.tar.gz now how do i apply the patch egcs-19990221-19990228.diff.gz on the above snapshot? |> > |> |> assuming they are in the same directory: |> |> gzcat < egcs-19990221.tar.gz | tar xvf - |> cd egcs-19990221 |> gzcat < ../egcs-19990221-19990228.diff.gz | patch -p1 -E |> |> should work, consult your various man pages and the egcs web pages if you |> get stuck. |> |> you _should_ see a lot of stuff scroll by with the words |> "Hunk succeeded" on some lines... Unless you are using patch 2.1, which is mostly silent by default. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org