Re: Problem building garnome 0.24.2 on Solaris 9 - HELP needed

[Eric Damphousse <ericdamphousse darwingroup net>]

Will do!... and thanks

Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  Eric Damphousse  quotation:
> >  You either have to fix gar.conf.mk to use gpatch,
> >  >or symlink /usr/bin/gpatch to "some path/patch" such
> >  >that "some path" is in front of /usr/bin, which is
> >  >where the patch binary you're getting output from
> >  >is.  I assume you're trying to build on Solaris.
> >   
>
> 	Yeah, that's a likely culprit.  
>
> First of all, make sure you install GNU patch.
>
> Second, I'm assuming garnome 0.24.2 (242 sighting!) uses recent GAR,
> which has the following at about line 204 of gar.lib.mk:
>
> PATCHDIR ?= $(WORKDIR)
> PATCHDIRLEVEL ?= 1
> PATCHDIRFUZZ ?= 2
> GARPATCH = patch -d$(PATCHDIR) -p$(PATCHDIRLEVEL) -F$(PATCHDIRFUZZ)
>
> 	if this is so, then you can do:
>
> make GARPATCH='/usr/bin/gpatch -d$(PATCHDIR) -p$(PATCHDIRLEVEL) -F$(PATCHDIRFUZZ)' install
>
> and the patch rules will use the new patch utility.  Barring that,
> just edit gar.lib.mk and swap in the location for GNU patch wherever
> you have the system calling the raw "patch" executable.