[Gllug] Building a patch

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Thu, 1 December, 2005 10:07 am, Stig Brautaset wrote:
>
> On 1 Dec 2005, at 09:52, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>
>> I want to produce a patch in linux kernel style comparing two
>> directories
>> - one is alsa-lib-orig and the other is alsa-lib (alsa lib patched to
>> allow it to build against uclibc as opposed to glibc). In addition
>> I want
>> the patch to ignore new files (ie the stuff generated by the ./
>> configure).
> ...
>> How can I do this?
>
> By running 'make distclean' before invoking diff?
>
> A good idea is to check out from the project's version control
> system, do your changes and ask the VCS to generate your patch. If
> that's not possible, download a tarball, import into your own
> favourite VCS, then do your changes and generate a patch/changeset.
>
> Don't know any VCSs yet? Then that should be next on your agenda.
>
I avoided using the alsa CVS for this because they had half implemented a
patch which didn't fully work and I wanted to avoid mixing up two
different ways of resolving this problem :(

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