On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Jarmo Paavilainen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I got a source code patch (from a email list) but I do not know how to apply
>it?
>
>It looks as follows:
>
>--- diald-99/options.c Thu Apr 1 17:42:14 1999
>+++ newdiald-99/options.c Sat Oct 16 11:11:41 1999
>@@ -774,8 +774,8 @@
> int flag = 0;
>
> if (!ifsetup || !*ifsetup) {
>- if (!path_ifconfig || !*path_ifconfig)
>- flag = 1, mon_syslog(LOG_ERR, "No ifconfig program found.");
>+ if ((!path_ifconfig || !*path_ifconfig) && (!path_ip || !*path_ip))
>
>... and so on ...
Ine this patricular instance;
Place the patch in the directory where options.c is, the type
patch -p1 -s < patchname
The person who made the patch (diff) has not thought about
newbie users using a patch like this one.
If you compare this patch to a kernel-patch the you will see what i
mean.
>// Jarmo
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