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Sean Welch <welchsm@earthlink.net> writes:

> I submitted a PR (44393) last October for emulators/snes9x with
> a fix ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/44393 ).
> It looks as though the maintainer (Green?) never applied it.  I
> just verified that it works under 4.8-RELEASE.
>
> I'm not sure how to produce the contextual diff format used in a
> patch, but line 305 in emulators/snes9x/files/patch-af reads:
>
> +       reportlen = hid_report_size(rd, hid_input, &report_id);
>
> when it should read:
>
> +       reportlen = hid_report_size(rd, hid_input, report_id);
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> (Maybe someone could tell me how to produce the contextual diff?)

Not sure what you mean, the command usually starts with "diff -c" and
two file names, original and patched file (in that order): diff -c old new

-- 
Matthias Andree