Holger> Hi ! Holger> Please, excuse my ignorance, but how does one apply Holger> patches to the current xemacs-directory ? Don't know as I'm using CVS. Holger> After reading patch-xemacs.sh I came to the conclusion Holger> that in my case "./patch-xemacs.sh xemacs-21.0.66 ." would Holger> do it (with the patch correctly named) but the patch Holger> failed - it couldn't determine the file to patch. Holger> So, I gunzip'ed the patch, and did a patch -p1 < patch and Holger> obtained the same result: for each file patch would ask me Holger> which file to patch :-( The filenames used in the patches Holger> all follow the pattern "XEmacs/xemacs/<filename>" Holger> i.e. CHANGES-beta as <filename>. Well, XEmacs/xemacs does Holger> not exist here (I'm using src/xemacs-<version>), so how Holger> can I apply such a patch ? In directory src/xemacs-<version> you should be able to do this: patch -p2 < patch Here's the relevant bit from the man page: -p num For all path names in the patch file that indicate the names of files to be patched, delete num path name components from the beginning of each path name. If the path name in the patch file is absolute, any lead- ing slashes are considered the first com- ponent (that is, -p 1 removes the leading slashes). Specifying -p 0 causes the full path name to be used. If -p is not speci- fied, only the basename (the final path name component) is used. Good luck, Adrian Holger> TIA, Holger> Holger Holger> -- Holger> --- http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer/ --- Holger> "Welche Linux-Distribution soll ich nehmen?" Holger> -- Aus "Wie starte ich einen Endlosthread ?", Teil 1171 -- Adrian Aichner Teradyne GmbH, European Design Center Integra Test Division Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com