Beginner Help...Applying Patch...How To?

[Joel Sherrill]

Aaron J. Grier wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:29:22PM +0100, Aditya wrote:
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>>Dear RTEMS Users
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>>May I Know how to apply this patch?
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>with the patch program, of course.
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>cd /where/is/the/source/of/rtems
>patch -p3 < /where/is/the/diff/file.diff
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>if patch asks "File to patch: " then control-C and try changing the
>parameter to -p.  it controls how many slashes in the pathname are
>stripped to find files, and 3 is just a guess.
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Aaron, the RTEMS FAQ has a section on generating a patch.  Could you 
please generate a
patch to that document adding this as a Q&A?  It is in 
rtems-XXX/docs/faq or something
similar.

Thanks.

--joel