Re: How to patch this module?

If you're going to manually patch a distribution, you forego most of the automation that CPAN provides you and have to do the steps manually:

Download and unpack the distribution. If in a hurry, you can let CPAN do that for you:

cpanm --look Devel::CallParser
[download]

cpan
CPAN> look Devel::CallParser
</li>
<li>Patch the distribution:
<c>
patch < rt110623.patch
[download]

Test the distribution:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
[download]

Update: Corrected invocations of tools, as spotted by ibm1620

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Re^2: How to patch this module? by ultranerds (Hermit) on Mar 28, 2017 at 09:32 UTC
Hi, Thanks :) I just tried the method you said, but it seems to "hang" on the 2nd step: root@mail:~# cd Devel-CallParser-0.002/ root@mail:~/Devel-CallParser-0.002# patch ../fix.patch ^X^C Any ideas? Oh, and I also agree about not being able to get the best out of the CPAN system - but unfortunately until they fix the bug in the official release, I can't use it :( Thanks! Andy	[reply]
Re^3: How to patch this module? by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 28, 2017 at 09:38 UTC
I don't know what format the patch file is in and how your patch command expects its input. The `patch` command I know expects its input on stdin, which is why I showed the suspected command line as `patch < whatever.patch` [download] Maybe your `patch` command is different.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: How to patch this module? by ultranerds (Hermit) on Mar 28, 2017 at 09:40 UTC
Sorry, I missed the < part of your example :) Works now! Thanks	[reply]
Re^2: How to patch this module? by ibm1620 (Hermit) on May 10, 2022 at 20:33 UTC
Should that be `cpanm --look Devel::CallParser` ?	[reply] [d/l]