From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 10 10:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA11455 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 10:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1569.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11447 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 10:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA00229; Sun, 10 May 1998 13:15:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 13:15:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Chuck Robey cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Adam McDougall , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copying a file before patch and after extract In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 10 May 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I suggest, though, that a better way to solve the problem (from a > > stylistic perspective), is to make your patches apply to > > Makefile.linux_alt. Then add > > > > MAKEFILE= Makefile.linux_alt > > > > Can't patch a non-existent file, so he'd have to do a copy first. No, he wanted to copy the _existing_ file "Makefile.linux_alt" to the non-existing file "Makefile". Patching "Makefile.linux_alt" directly and then just setting the ${MAKEFILE} to Makefile.linux_alt cleaner. [Caveat: I may have completely misunderstood his question, but I strongly doubt that :] -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message