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<p>page created</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Once you have the needed changes, apply them (pre autoconf) to a copy of a fresh source directory. You should now have a &#039;patched&#039; directory sitting alongside an unpatched direcetory. Now generate the patch...<br /> <br /> diff -ruN old new &gt; my_patch<br /> <br /> To apply this patch to a fresh source directory, place the patch alongside the source dir:<br /> patch -p0 &lt; my_patch</div>

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