diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06/patch.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/patch.xml | 48 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/patch.xml b/chapter06/patch.xml index 8ff7e4c69..081d36278 100644 --- a/chapter06/patch.xml +++ b/chapter06/patch.xml @@ -1,21 +1,28 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> <sect1 id="ch-system-patch" xreflabel="Patch"> -<title>Installing Patch-&patch-version;</title> -<?dbhtml filename="patch.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<title>Patch-&patch-version;</title> +<?dbhtml filename="patch.html"?> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-patch"><primary sortas="a-Patch">Patch</primary></indexterm> <para>The Patch package contains a program for modifying files.</para> -<screen>&buildtime; &patch-time; -&diskspace; &patch-compsize;</screen> +<screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU +&diskspace; 1.9 MB</screen> + +<para>Patch installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, +GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para> -&aa-patch-down; -&aa-patch-dep; -<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> <title>Installation of Patch</title> -<para>Prepare Patch for compilation (setting the preprocessor flags to +<para>Prepare Patch for compilation (the preprocessor flag <emphasis>-D_GNU_SOURCE</emphasis> is only needed on PowerPCs, on other machines you can leave it out):</para> @@ -25,14 +32,31 @@ machines you can leave it out):</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>And install it:</para> +<para>Now install it:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> </sect2> -&aa-patch-shortdesc; -&aa-patch-desc; -</sect1> +<sect2 id="contents-patch"><title>Contents of Patch</title> + +<para><emphasis>Installed program</emphasis>: patch</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Short description</title> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-patch patch"><primary sortas="b-patch">patch</primary></indexterm> +<para id="patch"><command>patch</command> modifies files according to a patch file. +A patch file normally is a difference listing created with the diff program. +By applying these differences to the original files, patch creates the patched +versions. Using patches instead of entirely new tarballs to keep your sources +up-to-date can save you a lot of download time.</para> + +</sect2> + + + +</sect1> |