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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

To me if the patches are working then it should be changed to make it a
working spell again even if that means going to the giant tarball.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 03:06, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
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> I spent some time on this spell
> 
> 
> after adding a patch for 4.3.99.903 I got various compile errors, 
> particularily related to fontfile.c
> 
> I contacted xfree86 and was informed that the source file contained old 
> code.
> 
> I made a local copy of the spell and installed everything from one giant 
> tarball.  It all built and installed without problem and is running well on 
> linux-2.6.3.
> 
> One point to note is that the size of the source tree produced by the giant 
> tarball is significantly smaller than that from the cumulative patches.
> 
> It seems that things have been moved and cleaned, and the patch process 
> does 
> not handle it well.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what we should do with this spell now.
> revert it to 4.3.99.902 or go to 4.3.99.903 using the giant tarball.
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> Regards,  Treeve 
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