RE: {bb} BBGEN help!!

[Kevin.Hanrahan@novainfo.com]

Very good sir, I will re-attempt it tonight.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik-bb@hswn.dk] 
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:54 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} BBGEN help!!


In <4CD13C22AD120746998F4C066E38DCE102E9427B@satlexh04.novainfo.com>
Kevin.Hanrahan@novainfo.com writes:

>Thank you sir. The problem I ran into was in the syntax of the 
>instructions that came with BBGEN. As I understand it, the syntax for 
>patch should be:

>patch <original file> <patchfile>
>  
>But BBGEN instructions say:

>patch -p0 < $SRC/bbpatches/1.9e-server/bbd-background.patch

>There is no original file specified to patch! The utility comes back 
>and asks me which file I want to patch but I have no idea!

>Am I just simply not understanding this correctly?

The "patch" command - at least, GNU patch as recommended by the INSTALL docs
- knows how to determine the filename from the contents of the
bbd-background.patch file. If you look at this file, it begins with

diff -urN src-bb19e/dohostsvc.c src/dohostsvc.c
--- src-bb19e/dohostsvc.c       2004-01-02 22:08:44.000000000 +0100
+++ src/dohostsvc.c     2004-01-26 11:11:37.944637264 +0100

which tells the patch-utility to modify the file "src/dohostsvc.c".

(The "-p" option can be used to strip off directory elements from that
filename, but since the recommended method is to use "-p0", that will not
happen).

The man-page for GNU patch also shows this way of running the patch
utility:


NAME
       patch - apply a diff file to an original

SYNOPSIS
       patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]]

       but usually just

       patch -pnum <patchfile



Regards,
Henrik

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