[Slackbuilds-users] How best to contact Slackware devs?

[Jeremy Hansen]

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018, 12:37 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, David Woodfall wrote:
>
> > This sounds more like an issue for the alpine devs. Have you looked to
> see
> > if a fix has been made for this issue? If not then it's worth opening a
> > bug report with them.
>
> Dave,
>
>    Downloaded the git tree for 2.21.9 (had to rename it from his numbering
> system) and all the files from the 14.2 source directory.
>
>    Untarred source, changed directory name to alpine-2.21.9/, tarred and
> xz'd
> it. Changed version number in alpine.SlackBuild. This error appeared:
>
> alpine-2.21.9/pico/estruct.h
> chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink './web/cgi/detach'
> chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink './web/cgi/alpine/2.0/lib/yui'
> chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink './web/detach'
> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> can't find file to patch at input line 3
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |--- ./doc/alpine.1.orig        2008-03-14 18:53:39.000000000 -0500
> |+++ ./doc/alpine.1     2008-08-06 20:00:13.000000000 -0500
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
>
>    Please suggest how I should proceed.
>

You can likely remove or comment out the line containing the patch. I'm in
mobile or I'd try and find the specific line.

Jeremy

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