Re: HDF5 patch

[João Cardoso]

Teemu Ikonen wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Shaun Cloherty wrote:
>
> > > patch < hdf5.patch
> > > doesn't work with the CVS sources, patch can't figure out the right
> [...]
> > depending on where abouts in the source tree you are, you probably need to
> > supply a -pX option to patch, where X is some number of forward slashed to
>
> The -p option doesn't work because my patch (ver. 2.5) didn't even
> recognize the paths.

you should specify -c in the cvs diff (cvs diff -c ....) in order to generate
context  diffs that 'patch' can understand, or you could setup your .cvsrc to
include a line saying 'diff -c'.

Joao

> After entering the few pathnames by hand I got it to
> work with 2.1.30 sources (CVS sources didn't compile for me), but I had to
> change the Makefiles by hand since my hdf5 library is in a non-standard
> directory.
>
> t.
>
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