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How can you make a patch ?
* Put the original AfterStep in some dir, let's say AfterStep-old/
* Put your new source tree in something like AfterStep-new/
* Then run :
diff -N -u -r AfterStep-old/ AfterStep-new/ > yourname-patch
gzip yourname-patch
* People will apply your patch by just running :
tar -zxvf AfterStep-old.tgz
gunzip yourname-patch.gz
patch -p0 < yourname-patch
Guylhem
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Alternatively, you can use makeaspatch, makeasclean and makeasversion, included
in the tools dir of the AS distribution. makeasclean cleans the AS source
tree, and makeaspatch makes a patch.
* Put makeaspatch, makeasclean, makeasversion in your path
* Put the original AfterStep source in /usr/src/AfterStep/AfterStep-current
* Put your modified version in /usr/src/AfterStep/AfterStep-devel
* cd /usr/src/AfterStep/AfterStep-devel
* run makeasclean
* run makeasversion (with an argument for the patch number
e.g. 'makeasversion 1.7.76')
* If there is a Makefile, now use 'make config'; otherwise run this:
autoconf --localdir=autoconf autoconf/configure.in > \
configure ; chmod 755 configure
autoheader --localdir=autoconf autoconf/configure.in > \
autoconf/config.h.in ; chmod 644 autoconf/config.h.in
* Run makeaspatch, which makes the patch as /tmp/patch
* Look at your patch and make sure there aren't any silly mistakes :)
* Check your patch by patching the original code, compiling, and testing
cd /usr/src/AfterStep/AfterStep-current
cat /tmp/patch | patch -p1
# the next line is paranoia only - makeaspatch will have done this already
makeasclean
install.script
* gzip the patch
gzip /tmp/patch
* Send it to the AS maintainers!
Ethan
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To apply a patch (or patches), I find the following method easiest:
* download a version of AS, and the patches for that version, say 1.7.0
(so the patches will be named 1.7.0-xx-*)
* extract AS:
tar xzf AfterStep-1.7.0.tar.gz
* apply the patches:
cd AfterStep-1.7.0
gzip -dc ../1.7.0-* | patch -p1
If the patches are not gzipped, change the last step to:
* cat ../1.7.0-* | patch -p1
Ethan
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