Guy Dalziel wrote: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:59:07AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Is the links-2.1pre33-utf8.diff.bz2 patch really applicable to Links-2.2? >> If >> so, I think it should be explicitly mentioned in the book. > > As far as I can tell, yes. The patch applies cleanly against 2.2 with > only a couple of offsets in links.h. The text says that the patch adds a > "UTF-8 I/O" configuration option, and that's exactly what I see. I > haven't actually tested it myself, but since it applied so cleanly and > does what it's supposed to I have no reason to doubt that it works. > > I did consider adding something about the version, but I figured that > people would realise it for themselves. Unzip 5.52, for instance, is > still linking to unzip-5.50-alt-iconv-v1.1.patch. Personally I always > update the version; I was considering loading the patch in to the > patches project, it's only 20K uncompressed.
If it's available form the source, then I think we should use that instead of renaming it for the version. However a short statement like (Still valid for Links-2.2) after the patch URL wouldn't hurt anything. I think this would be reasonable whenever patch number does not agree with the release number. It's curious why the devs just didn't integrate it into the new release though. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
