On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:37:12AM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote: > * Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-07 09:28]: > > Many thanks for the patch. I'll give it a try, but have to learn how > > to apply them first. I've graduated from windoze to linux rpms to now > > being comfortable with compiling source, but haven't tried the patch > > route yet. Got to read up on it first. > > In this case, the patch can be applied, from within the mutt source > directory, like so: > > $ patch -p1 < patch-1.3.27.ds.askfrom.txt > > For patch, the -p# tells patch how many directory levels to remove from > the filenames. If you read through the patch file, you can see that it > references files as "mutt-1.3.27/init.h" and "mutt-1.3.27/send.c", which
Question: If I've installed Mutt-1.4i, do I need to go into the patch source and change all references to "mutt-1.3.27" so that they read "mutt-1.4i" instead? > is to say 1 directory and then a filename, so patch has to strip off 1 > level of directories to file the name of the file to patch. > > (darren) As always, many thanks. This group is great. Kevin > > -- > All men are mortal. > Socrates was mortal. > Therefore, all men are Socrates. > -- Woody Allen -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941
