On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 23:02 -0500, Mark Lee wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 04:58 +0100, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Mark Lee <mark(a)markelee.com> wrote:
> > > My patch command was given in the build() section of the PKGBUILD:
> > >
> > > build() {
> > > cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}";
> > > patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/i965_rendering.patch"
> > > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > > make
> > > }
> > >
> > > While debugging libva-intel-driver, I applied the rendering patch via
> > > the PKGBUILD only to find later that it wasn't actually applied. Makepkg
> > > didn't stop building the package even though it failed to apply the
> > > patch.
> >
> > Nothing wrong with that snippet; the problem lies somewhere else. Did
> > you actually watch the patch fail and makepkg continue? Are you sure
> > the package you have installed came from this PKGBUILD?
>
> I rebuilt and installed the package from the PKGBUILD (makepkg -s -r -i)
> multiple times. After finding that nothing was working, I grew
> suspicious and examined the src folder of the PKGBUILD to find that the
> source was not patched. Incidentally the correct code was "patch -p1 -i"
> not "patch -Np1 -i".
>
> Regards,
> Mark
Salutations,
Scratch that, I just checked my records and I used a lower cased "n"
instead of "N". I just tried it with "patch -Np1 -i" and it works, but
"patch -np1 -i" doesn't.
Regards,
Mark
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Mark Lee <mark(a)markelee.com>