Question about dist-cvs make targets

[Enrico Scholz]

Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> writes:

> I have used make patch quite a bit when developing patches. I guess
> it's just a wrapper around gendiff though, so it maybe redundant i.e.
> in my use case I could have been using gendiff.

fwiw, 'gendiff' does not retain comments in patches and fails when one
file is touched by multiple patches.  I wrote a wrapper around 'quilt'
which is used like

| %apply -n23 -p1

This expands to

| quilt import -p 1 %PATCH23
| quilt push -f

resp.

| %patch23 -p1

on systems without this macro.  Refreshing and developing of patches is
very easy in this way.


Enrico