Randy McMurchy wrote: > > You are the second person to say this, however, most > (including me) only receive a message during the patch's > installation, but it installs okay.
What message? > Could you give the *exact* error message you get, and > the result of the process when you use the instructions > in the book? > > I'm not a big fan of taking patches from a maintainer, > changing it, then installing it into the BLFS repo. The > reason being that we can't tell if the maintainer changes > the patch and leaves the name the same which would make > our patch obsolete without any way of even knowing it. > > Additionally, by retrieving it from the maintainer, it is > likely that if there are other patches, it would be > discovered easier than if we are using the BLFS repo. > > Thanks for any additional help or comments you may have, > Chris. I searched the mail archives for the last time this > issue came up, but I didn't get any good results. I'm not > real good at using the LFS search tool. Just showing every step here to verify that I'm using the same patch that's in the book, and I even pasted the patch command from the book... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wget http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff --18:06:27-- http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff => `Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff' Resolving www.trolltech.com... 62.70.27.147 Connecting to www.trolltech.com|62.70.27.147|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://trolltech.com/developer/download/Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff [following] --18:06:27-- http://trolltech.com/developer/download/Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff => `Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff' Resolving trolltech.com... 62.70.27.147 Reusing existing connection to www.trolltech.com:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff [following] --18:06:28-- http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff => `Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff' Resolving dist.trolltech.com... 62.70.27.149 Connecting to dist.trolltech.com|62.70.27.149|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2,976 (2.9K) [text/plain] 100%[====================================>] 2,976 --.--K/s 18:06:29 (22.73 KB/s) - `Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff' saved [2976/2976] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar xf qt-x11-free-3.3.8.tar.bz2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd qt-x11-free-3.3.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/qt-x11-free-3.3.8$ patch -Np0 -i ../Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff patching file src/codecs/qutfcodec.cpp Hunk #1 FAILED at 154. Hunk #2 FAILED at 168. Hunk #3 FAILED at 184. Hunk #4 FAILED at 194. Hunk #5 FAILED at 205. 5 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/codecs/qutfcodec.cpp.rej patching file src/tools/qstring.cpp Hunk #1 FAILED at 5805. Hunk #2 FAILED at 5823. Hunk #3 FAILED at 5851. 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/tools/qstring.cpp.rej [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/qt-x11-free-3.3.8$ file ../Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff ../Qt-3.3.8-UTF-8-fix.diff: ASCII C++ program text, with CRLF line terminators -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
