DefMod changes for base types

[Tom Hughes]

In message <9h8WQCAyvTw4EwMM at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> OK, Tom, thanks for that. At the risk of looking incredibly stupid, I'm
> afraid the patch file has me baffled. You're not doing an RS on me, are
> you? ;-)

No, just being nasty by generating a multifile diff from CVS ;-)

> The patch file obviously contains patches to a number of source files,
> which is the first problem. I have only ever used Patch to update a
> single file at a time, and try as I might, I cannot get it to work with
> multiple targets. What is the correct command line to use?

The easiest thing is just to split it into pieces - look for the
lines that start Index: and split before each one. Then you'll have
one patch per file.

You could in theory apply it in one go by sitting in the top level
DefMod directory and doing:

  patch < file

but that might not work as I generated the diff on linux so it has
unix style pathnames in it.

> Secondly, there are patches to a file called "readme". This existed in
> 5.30, but has been distributed more appropriately as "Manual/htm" since
> the early days. I guess RS, in his efforts to obliterate everything I'd
> done, built his 5.50 distribution from 5.30, thereby changing it back.
> We need to get our source trees aligned. I'd personally rather stick
> with Manual/htm, which allows it to be read on other platforms.

That's my fault. My repository still has the file under the old name
for various reasons... I'll try and remember to fix it.

Tom

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