Re: psppire distcheck failure

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:05:36AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      > Attached it the output I get for that test with the patch applied.
>      
>      It sure looks like you didn't apply the patch, because the
>      patched version doesn't run diff:
>      
>      You have to both extract the tarball *and* apply the patch.
>
> I didn't realise that.  I thought you'd provided 2 files as
> alternative ways of doing it.  You can create a patch which includes
> new files, with "cvs diff -N" .

My mistake--I should have read the "cvs diff" manpage to find
that option, but I didn't.  My apology for the lack of clarity.

(In my defense, the .out file diffs are really unenlightening,
since every line is changed.)

> It works fine now with the patch applied.  Thanks.

Thanks!
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