How do I use a .cgi patch?

Riichard · 04-13-2004, 04:51 AM

How do I use a .cgi patch?
I've recently upgraded my SuSE to KDE 3.2.
The upgrade went ok but Kget is now unusable, it crashes all the time.
This is a known bug and there's some cgi patches here,
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74597
to fix it but I don't know how to use them.

hw-tph · 04-13-2004, 06:23 AM

Save the patch to disk using whatever name you wish. Then simply cd to the source directory where the files that need to be patched reside and type patch -p0 < filename.patch where filename.patch is the name you saved the page as. If no errors are reported you should be able to compile the program with the patch applied.

Håkan

Riichard · 04-13-2004, 09:42 AM

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Originally posted by hw-tph
Then simply cd to the source directory where the files that need to be patched reside
Håkan

I'm not sure which files need to be patched.
Ive had a look at the attachment in kwrite and first line contains, kdenetwork-3.2.0/kget/transfer.cpp
I don't have this file.

hw-tph · 04-13-2004, 05:29 PM

You will need the KDE sources. Patching and building a big piece of software like KDE can be pretty daunting a task, so perhaps it's a better idea to look for pre-built packages with the patch applied?

I am not a huge KDE fan, but just building the KDE-libs package on my laptop took close to a full day.

Håkan