Re: Applying patches [was "Re: Inconsistent behaviour of (:)"]

[Quentin Spencer]

John B. Thoo wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:31 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > Please try the following patch.
>
>
> I'm sorry for what must be a truly daft question, but how does one 
> apply a patch?
>
> TIA.
> ---John.

The short answer is using the patch command on a Unix system (type "man 
patch") for more info.

A longer answer is that if you really need to use a fix that John has 
recently sent out, he has usually already checked the changes into CVS, 
so by following the instructions for CVS download on octave.org, you can 
download a recent copy of the cvs sources with the change applied. This 
is usually the route I take, since I also get other bugfixes with it as 
well. If you want to build octave from CVS, you will need a few 
additional tools installed, and prior to the usual "./configure; make; 
make install" sequence you also need to run "./autogen.sh".

Hope this helps.

Quentin



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