På 2007-05-19, skrev Alex Mandel: > Jimbo wrote: > >Welp I have compiled my first doo dad. Although rocky and not exactly > >what I had in mind I did it, even if it was wrong. I had to use a > >command ./autogen.sh > > > >What I don't understand is since this was kinda an upgrade to an > >existing program then why didn't it do just that? The old program is > >still there in its same place. > > I wasn't an upgrade in the way you think of a patch. You actually > generated a new version of the program(whole thing) from source and > installed it over the old one.(most likely) > > In order to do a patch, it's actually as I understand it different, > where they make a special file that has some way of inserting itself > into the existing version to fix a specific known problem.
A patch is just a set of instructions to make the changes that turn an old version into a new version. This applies to compiled programs or source code, so there are two possibilities of applying the patch technique: - distribute a patch to update an old version of the compiles program to a new version (binary patch); no compilation is required - distribute a patch to the source code; re-compiling and reinstalling the program is required. I hope that helps to make things clearer. -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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