On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:19:30PM +0000, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> On 9 Mar, Glen Walker wrote in message
>     <54fde1ce.8070...@mail.com>:
> 
> > I have tried creating a git patch with the command below so that I could
> > e-mail it to this mailing list but all I got was an empty file.
> > 
> >  > git format-patch master --stdout > bug2171.patch
> 
> I think you need to commit the changes into your local git repository, and
> then create the patch from that. I find git a bit obscure, and haven't
> needed to create patches before, however -- so I could be completely wrong.
> 
> > To progress things I have included the two files that I have modified to
> > fix Bug 2171 but I would like to know what the correct command that I'm
> > supposed to use to create a patch would be (the above command was all I
> > could find on several tutorial websites and I don't have time right now to
> > dig any deeper into git).
> > 
> > Well I tried attaching the files I changed in a .zip format and .tar.gz
> > format and the mail server rejected both of them so this is what I
> > changed:
> 
> [snip changes]
> 
> > Hopefully this will be useful to someone who can properly apply the patch.
> 
> Many thanks for these. I've added the changes (with a tweak to remove the
> old AppHelp tokens, as they're RISC OS only and were only in the iconbar to
> start with) to a branch stevef/ibarmenu, which you can see (and check out)
> here:
> 
>  http://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/log/?h=stevef/ibarmenu

I will take a look and merge if you are happy with all the RISC OS changes?

> 
> (I can't commit them fully myself, as FatMessages is outside of riscos/).
> 
> It might be wise for someone to try building it before moving it to the
> master, as although it compiles, I don't seem to be able to link using my
> setup at present. I might need to bite the bullet and install the full
> toolchain instead of using my own copy of GCCSDK, unless anyone can shed any
> light on
> 
>       LINK: !NetSurf/!RunImage,ff8
>   arm-unknown-riscos-g++: error: LIBRARIES: No such file or directory
>   make: *** [!NetSurf/!RunImage,ff8] Error 1
> 

To me, this looks like a pkg-config file for one of the libraries has
been copied/installed without the instalation sed completing
sucessfully so you have ended up with the -L with a path that reads
LIBRARIES


-- 
Regards Vincent
http://www.kyllikki.org/

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