Anybody else have an xscreensaver build break?

Steven Friedrich FreeBSD at insightbb.com
Mon Jul 4 14:29:26 GMT 2005


On Sunday 03 July 2005 03:47 pm, Simon Barner wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Sunday, 3. July 2005 17:13, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > > > 1. Make a copy of the file to edit: cp file.c file.c.orig
> > > > 2. Make changes to file.c
> > > > 3. cd ${WRKSRC}, i.e. work/xscreensaver-x.y in your case
> > > > 4. patch -u path/to/file.c.orig path/to/file.c > patch-path_to_file.c
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble with > patch-path_to_file.c
> > >
> > > I tried patch -u hacks/glx/antmaze.c.orig hacks/glx/antmaze.c >
> > > patch-hacks/glx/antmaze.c
> > >
> > > and got:
> > >
> > > patch-hacks/glx/antmaze.c: No such file or directory.
> > >
> > > help?
> >
> > Simon's instructions are quirky. :-) Patches are applied with patch and
> > created with diff. Thus step 4 should be:
> >
> > diff -u path/to/file.c.orig path/to/file.c > patch-path_to_file
>
> Oh, yes, indeed :-/ Steven, sorry for the confusion! It's simply too hot
> here to think clearly... ;-)
>
> Simon

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my original post.  I'll use Michael's 
clarification of your instructions and submit the changes via send-pr.

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