On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:08:14 -0500 in opsiq8r0ockuru7p@xxxxxxxxxxx "Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr." <diogenes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I understand the old macro assembler, and direct single or multiple > pass compilers that work on a source file and create an object or > exe file, but I haven't a clue how this old knowledge can be used to > understand all this "make", "patch", and "diff" stuff. It's still a > complete mystery to me. I need a kindergarten tour somewhere. :-) > Patch and diff are just ways of creating differences for a given pair of source trees, and then applying them to the original tree somewhere else. Make and the Makefile structure is fairly simple if you have a read of the man page, it's the auto-tools that are somewhat harder to grasp. -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk GnuPG key ID DE32E5C5 - http://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
