From: William Sundberg Date: 2004-01-28T04:43:55+09:00 Subject: Re: ./configure problem Thank you again, now I feel even more stupid. I tried with this. Cut out the text from the first mail(the patch) and put it in a "file". -----------file: patch_m @@ -120,3 +120,3 @@ maybe_os=`echo $1 | sed 's/^\(.*\)-\([^- case $maybe_os in - nto-qnx* | linux-gnu* | freebsd*-gnu* | netbsd*-gnu* | storm-chaos* | os2-emx* | rtmk-nova*) + nto-qnx* | linux-* | freebsd*-gnu* | netbsd*-gnu* | storm-chaos* | os2-emx* | rtmk-nova*) os=-$maybe_os ----------- Then I tried the following without luck: [william@localhost ruby-1.8.1]$ config.sub < patch_m bash: config.sub: command not found [william@localhost ruby-1.8.1]$ patch_m < config.sub bash: patch_m: command not found [william@localhost ruby-1.8.1]$ chmod +x patch_m [william@localhost ruby-1.8.1]$ patch_m < config.sub bash: patch_m: command not found What am I missing? On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 20:19, benny wrote: > Am Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:02:16 +0900 > schrieb William Sundberg : > > > Thank you for your reply but how do you "try this patch"? Should I add > > this lines in config.sub if so where? > > usually you can patch a patch with > > patch < patch.file > > just make sure that the filenames in the patch file (e.g. config.sub) can be found > > benny > > >