BOOK/chapter06/patch.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-patch" xreflabel="Patch">
   2 <title>Installing Patch-&patch-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="patch.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Patch package contains a program for modifying files.</para>
   6
   7 <screen>&buildtime; &patch-time;
   8 &diskspace; &patch-compsize;</screen>
   9
  10 &aa-patch-down;
  11 &aa-patch-dep;
  12
  13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  14
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>Installation of Patch</title>
  17
  18 <para>Prepare Patch for compilation:</para>
  19
  20 <screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  21
  22 <para>Again, the preprocessor flag <emphasis>-D_GNU_SOURCE</emphasis> is only
  23 needed on the PowerPC platform. On other architectures you can leave it out.</para>
  24
  25 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  26
  27 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  28
  29 <para>And install it:</para>
  30
  31 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  32
  33 </sect2>
  34
  35 &aa-patch-shortdesc;
  36 &aa-patch-desc;
  37
  38 </sect1>
  39