Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 21:48:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, FreeBSD-ports@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: diff/patch question Message-ID: <199506200448.VAA02456@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950619225709.16334B-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Jun 19, 95 11:03:21 pm
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> > Hi Satoshi. I am trying to keep up with changes I'm making in a port I'm > trying to develop, and so I'm using the info you gave me on diff. I'm > having a strange problem, tho, and I hope you can help. The project I'm > into uses imake, so one of the files is named site.def. The file occurs > in the top project directory, and has to be changed, then deposited in > the project config directory, several layers down. Patch keeps on > insisting that, since it finds the file in the top directory, I must have > made a mistake, so it patches it inthe top directory, and doesn't move it > down. How can I force patch to believe I know what I want? I am not Satoshi, but will try to answer this for you. Use a -p0 option to patch, that will tell patch to use the full pathname in the patch file. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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