From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 20 13:34:42 1999
Subject: Re:  Octave 2.1.18 available for ftp
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Etienne Grossmann <etienne at isr dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:33:10 -0500 (CDT)

On 20-Oct-1999, Etienne Grossmann <etienne at isr dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt> wrote:

|   I had a slight problem when applying the patch (I used the bz2 one):
| 
| etienne at anonimo:  patch -p0 < octave-2.1.17-2.1.18.patch 
| patching file `octave-2.1.17/ChangeLog'
| patching file `octave-2.1.17/doc/ChangeLog'
| patching file `octave-2.1.17/doc/Makefile.in'
| patching file `octave-2.1.17/doc/interpreter/Makefile.in'
| can't find file to patch at input line 322
| Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
| The text leading up to this was:
| --------------------------
| |diff -cNr octave-2.1.17/doc/interpreter/system.txi octave-2.1.18/doc/interpreter/system.txi
| |*** octave-2.1.17/doc/interpreter/system.txi   Fri Oct 16 13:05:28 1998
| |--- octave-2.1.18/doc/interpreter/system.txi   Wed Oct 20 01:52:18 1999
| --------------------------
| File to patch: 
| 
| 
|    The rest went fine (except for kron.m, which I had removed).

Unzip the patch and read the comments at the top.  They will tell you
what to do to make it work correctly.  It is not just set of diffs.

jwe