applying patch

[Andreas Schwab]

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.

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