Dave - You must include the directory name where the patch file is located as well as the name of the file. The form should be: patch -p0 < patchdirname/patchfilename Give that a spin and see what happens. Regards - Chuck. On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, David Robinson wrote: > I downloaded the new spekaup-0.09 for linux. I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.2 > and I copied the speakup-0.09-v2.3-patch to the /usr/src directory. I > used the patch -p0<speakup-0.09-v2.3-patch and I got the following errors > > 1 out of 1 hunk ignored > patching file linux/maintainers > hunk succeeded at 809 with fuzz 2 (offset 186 lines) > can't find file to patch at input line 587 > perhaps you used the wrong -p or --string option > enter the file to patch: > > I don't know what to do after I get these errors. I have the patch-2.5 > for patching files to the kernel. I've read the installation file and > before you compile the kernel your supose to use the patch command to > patch the files to the kernel but I can't get past the patch command. > After I did the patch command I tried to compile the kernel and I didn't > see andthing prompting me about speakup. What am I doing wrong with the > patch command. Can some one help out to get speakup us and running? > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh (I C Q = 67363342) The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H.L. Mencken
