kernel-2.4.20-37.9.legacy.src.rpm problem
Brian Morrison
bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Thu Dec 9 19:14:19 UTC 2004
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:08:14 -0500 in opsiq8r0ockuru7p at vgernet.net
"Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr." <diogenes at xenodochy.org> wrote:
> I understand the old macro assembler, and direct single or multiple
> pass compilers that work on a source file and create an object or
> exe file, but I haven't a clue how this old knowledge can be used to
> understand all this "make", "patch", and "diff" stuff. It's still a
> complete mystery to me. I need a kindergarten tour somewhere. :-)
>
Patch and diff are just ways of creating differences for a given pair
of source trees, and then applying them to the original tree somewhere
else.
Make and the Makefile structure is fairly simple if you have a read of
the man page, it's the auto-tools that are somewhat harder to grasp.
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Brian Morrison
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