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author | Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> | 1998-10-08 12:45:13 +0000 |
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committer | Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> | 1998-10-08 12:45:13 +0000 |
commit | a2a26ea81b9ef1a3987f5473386c80d4e57c69c1 (patch) | |
tree | 550d93d330e9f8143f051e988246e97ec285709a /doc/applying-patches.txt | |
parent | 85da402e0a6e4fd5a29e0a816fb7d105e63e533e (diff) |
Some more documentation; install the html version of the manual if
it's there.
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diff --git a/doc/applying-patches.txt b/doc/applying-patches.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c9e3b5b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/applying-patches.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Subject: Applying patches +From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de> +Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:32:53 +0200 + +When applying patches to mutt, you may encounter strange error +messages spit out by programs like aclocal, autoconf, automake. +This will happen if your machine has a partial build environment +(see devel-notes.txt for a description of what's needed for mutt +development): Mutt has detected changes to some of the "meta source +files" like configure.in and tries to rebuild other files such as +aclocal.m4 or Makefile.in based on these changes; this will fail if +your build environment is not complete. + +If you encounter this kind of problem, touching the following files +after applying patches may help: + + Makefile.in + config.h.in + configure + aclocal.m4 + +After doing so, simply type "make"; the dependencies should take +care of the necessary other re-building (this may quite well include +a re-running of ./configure). |