[ale] how do I apply a patch?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lisa Chiang wrote:
> 
> Very elementary question:
> 
> I downloaded ddd (ver 2.3) and in order to force it to use lesstif instead of
> Motif, I'm supposed to apply the patch: lesstif-0.82.patch.
> 
> I downloaded the ddd sources, compiled and installed it without the patch and it
> does come up.  I just wanted to see how far I could go.
> 
> Do I need to recompile with some switches and then apply the patch, or do I just
> "apply the patch" to the newly compiled executable?  (Lesstif 0.82 is compiled
> and sitting in /usr/local/lib and an entry for that path is in /etc/ld.so.conf.)

I've never seen a patch that is applied to a binary, not to say that's
not what this is.  Generally, you patch the source then compile.

> 
> Thanks for any help.
>  --
> gt6492d at gatech.campus.mci.net
> Lisa Chiang

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