[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[3be4d97] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-patch" xreflabel="Patch">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Patch-&patch-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="patch.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-patch"><primary sortas="a-Patch">Patch</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[5888299] | 12 | <para>The Patch package contains a program for modifying files.</para>
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| 13 |
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[673b0d8] | 14 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
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| 15 | &diskspace; 1.9 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Patch installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 18 | GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
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[3554fa3a] | 19 |
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[73aedd1d] | 20 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Patch</title>
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| 24 |
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[673b0d8] | 25 | <para>Prepare Patch for compilation (the preprocessor flag
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[c3dc67c] | 26 | <emphasis>-D_GNU_SOURCE</emphasis> is only needed on PowerPCs, on other
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| 27 | machines you can leave it out):</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 28 |
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| 29 | <screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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[673b0d8] | 35 | <para>Now install it:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 36 |
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| 37 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 40 |
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[5888299] | 41 |
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[673b0d8] | 42 | <sect2 id="contents-patch"><title>Contents of Patch</title>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para><emphasis>Installed program</emphasis>: patch</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect2>
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| 47 |
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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[673b0d8] | 49 | <sect2><title>Short description</title>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-patch patch"><primary sortas="b-patch">patch</primary></indexterm>
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| 52 | <para id="patch"><command>patch</command> modifies files according to a patch file.
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| 53 | A patch file normally is a difference listing created with the diff program.
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| 54 | By applying these differences to the original files, patch creates the patched
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| 55 | versions. Using patches instead of entirely new tarballs to keep your sources
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| 56 | up-to-date can save you a lot of download time.</para>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | </sect2>
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| 59 |
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| 60 |
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| 61 |
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| 62 | </sect1>
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