Re: Re Re: patch 4.6.99.26-4.6.99.27.diff.bz2 fails

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, [email protected] wrote:
>>> I don't understand what you're getting at, as the patch contains no
>>> changes to any Makefile.

>> Sorry, it wasn't very clear.

>> Yes indeed, but it does make changes to the corresponding Imakefiles and
>> this seems sufficient to break things. I still use the same config file
>> and I simply added this patch to the list in the .spec file.
>> The error does not occur when applying the patch, but during the
>> compilation.

> Hummm.  Please send me that .spec file (privately).

That .spec file applies additional changes, some of which are no longer 
needed.  In this case, it's patch 40002 that fails, not the 
4.6.99.[26->27] diff.

In any case, XFree86 cannot be expected to support any additional changes 
made to its sources.  So, you're on your own on this one.

Marc.

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