Angel Tsankov wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> 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 >> > Later on, I'll try this and write back what happens. I thought > "patch -N" was equivalent to "patch -Np0". > Your suggestion seems to help. Thanks!
The only thing that bothers me now is that I get the following message when I apply xorg-68x-cidfonts.patch: Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file lib/font/Type1/scanfont.c.rej The failed hunk is about some comments, so I guess it is not significant. Angel Tsankov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
