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| author | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 2006-08-23 19:23:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 2006-08-23 19:23:30 +0000 |
| commit | d8f0aa16bc4fb1db2ca0cffb0df9b497092ffc91 (patch) | |
| tree | c8416ee60fa013cc5fbb4d499eee3708e9200537 /doc/FAQ/tools.t | |
| parent | 2006-08-23 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> (diff) | |
| download | rtems-d8f0aa16bc4fb1db2ca0cffb0df9b497092ffc91.tar.bz2 | |
2006-08-23 Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
* Makefile.am, configure.ac, index.html.in: FAQ should now be
completely in the Wiki.
* FAQ/.cvsignore, FAQ/FAQ.texi, FAQ/Makefile.am, FAQ/basic.t,
FAQ/bsp.t, FAQ/build45.t, FAQ/concepts.t, FAQ/debug.t,
FAQ/endoftime.t, FAQ/entry, FAQ/freesw.t, FAQ/hwdebugaids.t,
FAQ/projects.t, FAQ/stamp-vti, FAQ/tools.t, FAQ/version.texi,
common/timemac.texi, common/timetbl.t, common/timing.t: Removed.
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diff --git a/doc/FAQ/tools.t b/doc/FAQ/tools.t deleted file mode 100644 index 4af175bcc9..0000000000 --- a/doc/FAQ/tools.t +++ /dev/null @@ -1,71 +0,0 @@ -@c -@c COPYRIGHT (c) 1988-2002. -@c On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR). -@c All rights reserved. -@c -@c $Id$ -@c - -@chapter General Development Tool Hints - -The questions in this category are related to the GNU development tools -in a non-language specific way. - -@section What is GNU? - -Take a look at @uref{http://www.gnu.org,http://www.gnu.org} for information on the GNU Project. - -@section How do I generate a patch? - -The RTEMS patches to the development tools are generated using a -command like this - -@example -diff -N -P -r -c TOOL-original-image TOOL-with-changes >PATCHFILE -@end example - -where the options are: - -@itemize @bullet - -@item -N and -P take care of adding and removing files (be careful not to -include junk files like file.mybackup) - -@item -r tells diff to recurse through subdirectories - -@item -c is a context diff (easy to read for humans) - -@end itemize - -Please look at the generated PATCHFILE and make sure it does not -contain anything you did not intend to send to the maintainers. -It is easy to accidentally leave a backup file in the modified -source tree or have a spurious change that should not be -in the PATCHFILE. - -If you end up with the entire contents of a file in the patch -and can't figure out why, you may have different CR/LF scheme -in the two source files. The GNU open-source packages usually have -UNIX style CR/LF. If you edit on a Windows platform, the line -terminators may have been transformed by the editor into Windows -style. - -@section How do I apply a patch? - -Patches generated with the @code{diff} program are fed into the -@code{patch} program as follows: - -@example -patch -p1 <PATCHFILE -@end example - -where the options are: - -@itemize @bullet - -@item -pNUM tells @code{patch} to strip off NUM slashes from the -pathname. - -@end itemize - -If @code{patch} prompts for a file to patch, you may need to adjust NUM. |