Re: how to use bigpatch2?

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

You can't run the patch as an executable; you need to use the program 
appropriately called 'patch'. Your commandline would be something like

	patch -p1 <bigpatch2

You do need to check the filename and the correct number after the -p..
it tells patch how many pathnames to strip off the files.. for instance,
instead of trying to patch balsa-old/idl/Makefile.am it would look for
idl/Makefile.am, which, if you're in the balsa source directory, is
correct.

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:14:25 Adam Chrystie wrote:
> 
> thanks for the information about bigpatch2. how do i update balsa with it. i get errors when i run it from the balsa directory and when i run from the src directory.
> 
> diff: balsa-old/idl/Makefile.am: No such file or directory
> diff: balsa-new/idl/Makefile.am: No such file or directory
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: ---: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: +++: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: @@: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: lib_LIBRARIES: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: BUILT_SOURCES: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: GNOME_INCLUDEDIR: command not found
> diff: balsa-old/libbalsa/mailbox.c: No such file or directory
> diff: balsa-new/libbalsa/mailbox.c: No such file or directory
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: ---: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: +++: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: @@: command not found
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: syntax error near unexpected token `(m'
> /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: /./usr/bin/balsa/src/bigpatch2: line 17: `       mailbox->new_messages = CLIENT_CONTEXT (mailbox)->msgcount;'
> 
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