On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:41:02AM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > First two lines of atapicam-20020820.diff: > > --- /dev/null Mon Aug 19 21:34:21 2002 > +++ sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c Mon Aug 12 22:08:00 2002 > > This means that applying the patch should create atapi-cam.c. Try applying > from /usr/src with: > > patch < /wherever/atapicam-yourversion.diff
Make that: patch -p0 < your.diff Otherwise patch(1) has a nasty habit of creating any new files in the current working directory, rather than where intended. I know this because I was looking at compiling the alpha version of the jdk-1.4.1 stuff yesterday, and precisely that difference had me perplexed for a while. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message