Re: garnome 2.17.4 / hal-0.5.8.1 patch trick?

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Stef,

Errant patch is once again active in CVS-HEAD.

-Joseph

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On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:22 +0100, Stef van der Made wrote:
> Hi
> 
> For me the patch that needs to be uncommented for Slackware isn't
> present and can't be downloaded for hal.
> 
> Could this patch potentialy fix the issue with the addons/macbookpro
> ...... compile issue ? As that one is driving me mad and the fix in
> bugreport on the hal bugzilla system won't fix me issue either so I
> logged a comment to the bug but heard nothing back :-(
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Stef
> 
> On 12/21/06, Peter <sw98234 hotmail com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:39:32 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> >
> > > That's weird.  Let me try.
> > >
> > > [using patch version 2.5.4]
> > >
> > >         % make extract
> > >
> > >         % cd work/main.d/hal-0.5.8.1
> > >
> > >         % patch -p1 < ../../../files/hal-0.5.8.1-fixppc.patch
> > >         patching file hald/linux/probing/probe-smbios.c
> > >         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
> > >         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
> > >         patching file hald/linux/pmu.c
> > >         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
> > >         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
> > >         patching file hald/linux/osspec.c
> > >
> > > Works fine.
> > >
> > > -Joseph
> >
> > I omitted that I was using dry-run. Since hunks were not being
> > patched, as patch continued, it would fail worse and worse. I usually
> > always test patches first before applying and in this case it caused
> > problems. Sorry to be a bother!
> >
> > --
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> >
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