From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: emacs-21.1-21.2.diff: "the top of the Emacs source tree" is imprecise. Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:56:21 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5tdd7a.q5.ln@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016741932 30264 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 20:18:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16o91P-0007s1-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:18:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o91O-0000gr-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from marvin.muc.de ([193.149.48.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o8sK-0000Ca-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:09:28 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 52938 invoked by uid 8); 21 Mar 2002 20:08:40 -0000 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1016741320 52934 193.149.49.134 (21 Mar 2002 20:08:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Mar 2002 20:08:40 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:35 I recently downloaded the file emacs-21.1-21.2.diff from www.gnu.org. The instructions in this file say "cd to the top of the emacs source tree and then type 'sh '. What exactly does "the top of the emacs source tree mean"? My directory structure starts off /usr/src/packages/BUILD/, and directly under this I have emacs-21.1 and emacs-21.2. I created emacs-21.2 by cloning emacs-21.1. I then copied emacs-21.1-21.2.diff to /usr/..../BUILD/emacs-21.2/ and attempted sh emacs-21.1-21.2.diff. It didn't work. More precisely, it didn't find all the files it needed to patch, and prompted me to tell it where to find them. I assume I must have tried to run sh emacs-21.1-21.2.diff from the wrong place. I think that the phrase ".. the top of emacs source tree .." is too vague. Is there any chance that the file comments can be elaborated to state _exactly_ where it is to be copied to, where it is to be run from, and what assumptions it makes on the shape of the source tree. Thanks in advance. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-emacs mailing list Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs