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From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: Philippe Corbes <philippe.corbes@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] How to apply a patch from internet?
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:33:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207130733.45561.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGHsZCMXAfosNwbevfyS-G7CsYwYZ6i82cOxkPpV2c=6se40QA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Philippe,

Philippe Corbes wrote:
> I would like to know if it's possible to conditionally download and apply a
> patch from internet to original sources downloaded from internet..
> If not can you give me a sample code to conditionally apply a patch (I add
> a boolean in the .in file and I check this boolean before patch apply) ?
> Usually we apply automatically all patch files.

You should do it the other way round: apply always the patch, but forward some 
kind of configure switch or make variable to its build system, to make the 
patched part compile or not.

Regards,
Juergen

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12 20:09 Philippe Corbes
2012-07-13  5:33 ` Juergen Beisert [this message]

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