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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-system-patch" role="wrap">
7<title>Patch-&patch-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="patch.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-system-patch"><primary sortas="a-Patch">Patch</primary></indexterm>
11
12<sect2 role="package"><title/>
13<para>The Patch package contains a program for modifying or creating files by
14applying a <quote>patch</quote> file typically created by the
15<command>diff</command> program.</para>
16
17<segmentedlist>
18<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
19<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
20<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>1.5 MB</seg></seglistitem>
21</segmentedlist>
22
23<segmentedlist>
24<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
26GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
27</segmentedlist>
28</sect2>
29
30<sect2 role="installation">
31<title>Installation of Patch</title>
32
33<para>Prepare Patch for compilation. The preprocessor flag
34<parameter>-D_GNU_SOURCE</parameter> is only needed on the PowerPC
35platform. It can be left it out on other architectures:</para>
36
37<screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
38
39<para>Compile the package:</para>
40
41<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
42
43<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
44
45<para>Install the package:</para>
46
47<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
48
49</sect2>
50
51
52<sect2 id="contents-patch" role="content"><title>Contents of Patch</title>
53
54<segmentedlist>
55<segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
56<seglistitem><seg>patch</seg></seglistitem>
57</segmentedlist>
58
59<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
60<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
61<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
62
63<varlistentry id="patch">
64<term><command>patch</command></term>
65<listitem>
66<para>Modifies files according to a patch file. A patch file is normally
67a difference listing created with the <command>diff</command> program. By applying
68these differences to the original files, <command>patch</command> creates the patched
69versions.</para>
70<indexterm zone="ch-system-patch patch"><primary sortas="b-patch">patch</primary></indexterm>
71</listitem>
72</varlistentry>
73</variablelist>
74
75</sect2>
76
77</sect1>
78
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