Patching files with spaces in the name
Alex Varju
alex at varju.ca
Sat Apr 9 16:48:09 PDT 2005
Sam Lawrance wrote:
> One option could be to put the patches in files/ without the patch-
> suffix, and apply them in a post-patch target explicitly listing the
> files to be patched on the command line, eg.
>
> post-patch:
> @${PATCH} ${PATCH_ARGS} "path/with spaces/somefile" ${FILESDIR}/thepatch
That's a good idea ... I never realized that patch could take the target
file as an argument. I'll do this.
Thanks,
Alex.
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