On Sun, 30 May 1999, John Pearson wrote: > The patch was prepared on a system where /usr/src/linux was 'really' > /usr/src/linux.vanilla. Try this: > # cd /usr/src > # ln -s linux linux.vanilla > # cat patch-2.2.7-ac4 | patch -p0 > > That should work.
The patch utility was specifically designed to deal with cases where the base directory is named differently. In other words, you can do it without the symlink. # cd /usr/src/linux # cat patch-2.2.7-ac4 | patch -p1 The '1' tells it to ignore up to and including the first slash in the pathnames in the diff: in this case, "linux.vanilla/".
