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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:29:16 -0600
From: b0l6604@agen.tamu.edu (Bootsrapa Limanond)
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Hi:

I would like to apply a patch to a source tree and rebuild a port.
The patch is only for a file in the source tree. What I did was I
applied the patch, using `patch' command and ran `make'. It looked like
`make' removed my source tree, created a new one based on the .tar.gz
file in the `distfiles' directory, and spent a couple of hours building
the `old' port from scratch.

Does `make' always unpack the `.tar.gz' file every time? Is there a way
around this? Better yet, what is a correct way to build from a patched
source tree?

Thank you very much,

Suttipan Limanond.

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