Thank you Daniel for your reply. One of the maintainers replied, and there
are indeed issues with the patch. I will try stacker instead.
Best regards,
Vinícius.
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 10:42 AM Daniel Littlewood <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Vinicius,
>
> I think the "patch does not apply" error may be a red herring. The
> patch applies cleanly for me directly to dwm 6.2, but does not
> compile.
> dwm.c:2161:52: error: ‘Monitor’ {aka ‘struct Monitor’} has no
> member named ‘pertag’
> On the other hand, the patch conflicts you get if you apply pertag
> first are caused by the swapfocus patch including parts of pertag in
> its diff. I tried removing the parts of pertag that swapfocus
> includes, but could not get something compilable.
>
> I would probably check with the maintainer, but there could be a fix
> I'm not seeing.
>
> All the best,
> Daniel
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 6:54 AM vinícius mota <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you very much Chris for your reply.
> >
> > I just tried again, from scratch, and failed again, with the same error.
> Early on today I successfully installed other suckless patches, this time
> for st, following the same procedure and everything worked flawlessly. In
> fact since I have two other patches for dwm in place, everytime dwm is
> reinstalled those two patches are reinstalled as well, and that happened
> several times today.
> >
> > It may be nonsense but I have looked up several patches' codes today and
> noticed that the beginning of the swapfocus patch is different, with a
> different "diff" command:
> >
> > diff -up a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
> > --- a/config.def.h 2020-01-29 00:06:12.415681126 +0100
> > +++ b/config.def.h 2020-01-29 13:25:14.167910093 +0100
> > @@ -66,6 +66,7
> >
> > while for all others that I have looked in such as hide vacant tags the
> diff command reads
> >
> > diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
> > index 4465af1..c4aa3de 100644
> > --- a/dwm.c
> > +++ b/dwm.c
> > @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
> >
> > Other than that I have no idea of why it is failing the way it is.
> >
> > Anyway, thank you again very much for your reply.
> >
> > Vinícius.
> >
> >
> >
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> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:29 PM Chris Down <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Vinícius,
> >>
> >> The error message from patch is quite clear that it failed to apply, so
> >> compilation is premature. You need to either massage it in, or find a
> patch
> >> which roughly matches your version.
> >>
>
>
