[46988] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml

[markd at macports.org]

Revision: 46988
          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/46988
Author:   markd at macports.org
Date:     2009-02-18 23:35:21 -0800 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009)
Log Message:
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Minor wording changes in previous source patch section mods.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml

Modified: trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml	2009-02-19 04:55:31 UTC (rev 46987)
+++ trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml	2009-02-19 07:35:21 UTC (rev 46988)
@@ -588,9 +588,9 @@
           <para>You should execute the <command>diff</command> command from
           the top-level directory of the unpacked source code, because during
           the patch phase MacPorts by default uses the patch argument
-          <option>-p0</option>, which does not strip prefixes containing any
-          leading slashes from file names found in the patch file (as opposed
-          to <option>-p1</option> that strips one, etc), and any path not
+          <option>-p0</option>, which does not strip prefixes with any leading
+          slashes from file names found in the patch file (as opposed to
+          <option>-p1</option> that strips one, etc), and any path not
           relative to the top-level directory of the unpacked source will fail
           during the patch phase.</para>
 
@@ -599,8 +599,9 @@
             that contains leading path information (diff was executed from a
             directory higher than the top-level source directory), you will
             need to use the <link linkend="reference.phases.patch">patch phase
-            keyword</link> <code>patch.pre_args</code> to specify some
-            prefixes containing leading slashes be stripped off.</para>
+            keyword</link> <code>patch.pre_args</code> to specify a
+            <option>-px</option> value for how many prefixes with leading
+            slashes are to be stripped off.</para>
           </note>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -807,4 +808,4 @@
       ${name}-src-${version}</para>
     </section>
   </section>
-</chapter>
+</chapter>
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