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davidstein

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Registered: 2020-06-22

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[SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

I am trying to add a patch from suckless to dmenu. I've never used the patch command before but I think thats what I need to use. I'm not sure which file to patch though. Do I patch the file at /usr/bin/dmenu?

Last edited by davidstein (2020-07-13 03:05:01)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

Does the patch not contain the path it should be applied to?

davidstein

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

Now that you say that I guess it should patch these three files,

config.def.h |  2 ++
 dmenu.1      |  3 +++
 dmenu.c      | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------

I'm not sure where to find the uncompiled dmenu code though. I know the binaries are in usr/bin. And also, do I apply the patch once to each of those three files?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

See Patching_packages.  patch will apply the patch to all the files listed in the patch / diff file.

tucuxi

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

Apply the patch to the source files, then rebuild and install the executable.

$ git clone https://git.suckless.org/dmenu
$ cd dmenu

Download the patch into this directory.

$ git apply _name-of-patch-file_
$ make && sudo make install

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

tucuxi the files installed would then not be tracked by pacman.

ondoho

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

Take a PKGBUILD of a patched dmenu from the AUR as an example to create your own PKGBUILD.

davidstein

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Re: [SOLVED] How to patch dmenu?

I read the Patching_packages wiki (should have done that to begin with) and that did the trick. Thanks!