Re: 1st question from php newbie :)

> Forginess please, my question may seem very stupid. > > I want to run the patch for 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 from the site php.net. The file > I downloaded does not like to be unzipped, I get that it is not a gzip file > ?!?!?! The patch for 2.0 to 2.2 does get gzip -d just fine. Anyone know if > there is something wrong with the patch? Or if it is already unzipped but > has the gx extension? > > Also, once I have the patch, since I saw no instructions for it, how would I > run it? > > I would guess > > sh php-4.2.1-to-php-4.2.2.patch > > or > ./php-4.2.1-tophp-4.2.2.patch > > Has anyone done this yet? Would you be so kind as to point me in the right > direction? The patch might have been automatically unzipped by your browser (my Mozilla does it), so remove the extension and go on. To check this, the content of your patch file should start with something like this: diff -ru php-4.2.1/NEWS php-4.2.2/NEWS --- php-4.2.1/NEWS Sun May 12 23:07:40 2002 +++ php-4.2.2/NEWS Sat Jul 20 21:20:20 2002 In this case, simply remove the extension. Now, cp php-4.2.1-to-php-4.2.2.patch to the directory which contains your php-4.2.1 source tree (where you see php-4.2.1 in your ls) and type patch -p0 < ./php-4.2.1-to-php-4.2.2.patch Anyway, 'man patch' should solve some more problems... Bye Michele