Hi Phil: Thanks for your documentation suggestions which I will act on.
On 2012-01-20 02:28-0800 phil rosenberg wrote: > As far as submitting a patch is concerned I haven't done this before. Am I > correct in saying that I simply do > > diff -cr ~/plplot-5.9.9 ~/plplot-5.9.9 > wxwidgetscolourfix.patch You need two distinct directory trees to get any difference at all. So cp -a ~/plplot-5.9.9 ~/plplot-5.9.9_fixed edit files in ~/plplot-5.9.9_fixed Test ~/plplot-5.9.9_fixed using the normal separate build directory (so ~/plplot-5.9.9_fixed is not filled up with built files to mess up the patch). There are many ways to generate a patch from two distinct directory trees, but the one I have memorized and which works well is diff -Naur ~/plplot-5.9.9 ~/plplot-5.9.9_changed \ > wxwidgetscolourfix.patch Look carefully at wxwidgetscolourfix.patch to make sure there is nothing extra there (e.g., *~ files left by your editor) and delete from ~/plplot-5.9.9_changed until the result of the diff command is a patch file that has your changes and nothing else. This clean-up step is important. > then submit the patch via the sourceforge site? That would work, but we probably pay most attention to patches submitted to this list as compressed e-mail attachments so I would advise that method. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
