SuiteSparse patch

Calum Robertson calum.robertson at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 09:20:58 PST 2006


On 12/16/06, Daniel Ericsson <deric at caveo.se> wrote:
>
> On 16 dec 2006, at 17.06, Calum Robertson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was building octave and got an error but I see there is a patch
> > to fix this. I've downloaded the patch but have no idea on how to
> > apply the patch. Can someone give me guidance please?
>
> Go into the octave ports directory <macports root>/dports/math/octave
> and execute `sudo port extract` then go into the "work" directory and
> apply the patch[1]. After you've applied the patch execute `sudo port
> install octave`.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_%28Unix%29#Usage_examples
>
> - Daniel
>

Hi,

I haven't looked at this for a number of weeks. Shouldn't I be applying the
patch to the SuiteSparse directory rather than the octave directory?

Could someone tell me what I should type at the command line to apply the
patch as I'm a bit lost with all of this...

Thanks.
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