[Scribus] How to use the fix for Python 2.3 compile problems

[Simon Munton]

On Saturday 01 Nov 2003 10:56 pm, Wesley T Allen wrote:

> Simon, worked like a charm.  I knew about the patch command, but I've
> always been confused by -p#, skimming man patch made me think it's just the
> level of checks that it does during the patch, is this correct?  I can
> output a log by tagging > patch.log at the end too right?

The -p# tells patch how much of the initial directory path to strip off before 
looking for the file to patch. eg if the patch file contains the following:
scribus-1.1.2.orig/scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/cmdvar.h
-p1 would make patch look for the file:
scribus/plugins/scriptplugin/cmdvar.h

Yes, > patch.log will create a file with the messages patch writes to stdout. 
To get stderr messages in the file too, use &> instead of > (see man bash)

Simon