Re: Can't seem to apply patches?

[Mark Borges <mdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:50:44 -0700,
>> Clint Olsen(CO) wrote:
CO> Why is it that when I apply patches to zsh, and I try to rebuild,
CO> I get this !$#@#^ error:
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Because you didn't do this:

>> On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 06:53:40 +0200 (MET DST),
>> Zoltan Hidvegi(ZH) wrote:

ZH> If you already have zsh-3.0-pre2, you can apply the patch in
ZH> zsh-3.0-pre3.diff.gz and you do not need to download the full
ZH> source.  To do this just cd into the directory where the
ZH> zsh-3.0-pre2 sources are kept and issue

ZH> gzip -dc zsh-3.0-pre3.diff.gz | patch -p
ZH> touch stamp.h.in configure

CO> Man, this pisses me off to no end.  I end up having to download a totally
CO> new tree and start from scratch.
CO> What am I doing wrong?

Not reading the full announcement.

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  -mb-