On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:56:53PM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote: > How am I supposed to apply the following patch: > http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.2/patches/xorg-68x-dbe-render.patch. I'm > particularly interested in the command line arguments to "patch" and the > directory where I should call it. I tried "patch -Np1 -i > xorg-68x-dbe-render.patch" and "patch -N -i xorg-68x-dbe-render.patch" in > xc, xc/programs, xc/programs/Xserver, and xc/programs/Xserver/dbe but none > of my tries was successful. > We used to have all manner of weirdly-diffed patches in kde security updates. I suppose you will need -Np0 from within xc/programs/Xserver, or
pushd xc/programs/Xserver patch -Np0 -i /path/to/patch popd BUT, I have a lot of difficulty trying to understand why anyone would build such an *antique* version of xorg. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
