[PLUG] Manually applying patches

[Joe Pruett]

>   I found an old patch file for mdbtools-0.5, but it calls source from a
> no-longer-existing cvs repository. I guess that my two options are to change
> that line to the local source directory or apply the patches manually.
>
>   The latter will not take long, but I'm having difficulty interpreting the
> .diff file contents. For example, the first patch is for mdbsql.h:
>
> RCS file: /cvsroot/mdbtools/mdbtools/include/mdbsql.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -r1.4 mdbsql.h
> 16a17
>> 	int max_rows;
> 42c43
> < char *g_input_ptr;
> ---
>> extern char *g_input_ptr;
> 61c62,63
> <
> ---
>> int mdbsql_run_query(MdbSQL *sql, char *mybuf);
>> void mdb_sql_set_maxrow(MdbSQL *sql,int aMaxrow);
>
>   I read the first change as adding at line 16 (making it then line 17), int
> max_rows. Then change line 42 (now 43) by removing char *g_input_ptr and
> adding extern char *g_input_ptr. Finally, row 61 is removed and the
> following two lines added. Is this correct?

yep, that is right.  you could also use the patch program to automatically 
make the changes for you.