one or more patch files / optional patch ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:23:58PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> The Porters Handbook says "To make fixes and upgrades easier, you should
> avoid having more than one patch fix the same file"; I'm in the reverse
> situation, e.g. I have to patch 4 files for adding a feature to a port.
> It will only make sense to patch all the files or none. Should the patch
> be split in 4 files or not ?

Yes, I think this is also documented in the porter's handbook.  It's a
real pain in the ass to update patches when there's more than one
patch per file.

> I also want to use OPTIONS to allow the user to choose if he wants this
> feature or not. How can I integrate this with patch target (e.g. having
> the patch in files/ but only applied if WITH_ is set) ?

EXTRA_PATCHES

Kris
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