> I tried patching my SOLR 4.1 source , as well as a freshly downloaded > SOLR trunk, to no avail. I guess I just need some tips on how and what > to patch. I tried to patch the base directory as well as the lucene > directory. If there's something I need to hack in the patch, do let > me know.
Try to apply the patch to trunk within eclipse. There you can see each filediff and manually change it while patching. I just ignored most of the javadoc and some other (nonfunctional) diffs and was able to produce some jars which are running (for my tests) in solr 4.1. regards, Kai