Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

[Chris Rees]

2009/5/27 Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com>:
> All,
>
> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the
> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small
> problem, but don't know how to install the updated port.
>
> I cd'ed into the
> /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VERSION% directory, then
> performed 'patch <patch-name' successfully, AFAICT.
>
> Then I did a make, but got no output.
>
> So - I'm obviously lacking clue here. Anyone have a spare set?
>
> Kurt
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Which directory did you run the make in?

Chris

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