Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx under OSX 10.4 (Tiger) fails 'make' @ "h_addr" ; OK under 10.3.X

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Henry Nelson wrote:

> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:18:13PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > For ncurses it's more complicated - you'd have to apply the rollup patch
>
> A little off topic, but is there a howto (for dummies) or instruction
> sheet somewhere that spells out how to "apply the rollup patch".  A
> couple of months ago I wanted to try updating ncursesw, but got stalled
> with just what patch to download and what to do with it.

only briefly - here:

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#where_patches

Like this (procedure hasn't changed in a while):

   The  rollup  patches include all patches through the cited version. You
   must apply them to the base release, e.g.,
        zcat ncurses-4.1.tar.gz |tar xf -
        cd ncurses-4.1
        sh ../patch-4.1-4.2.sh

The ".sh" file contains uuencoded/gzip'd patches.  The uuencoding is a 
problem for some (Redhat for instance moved that to sharutils package
which isn't part of the base system).  There's a bzip2'd version of the
rollup patch.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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