Re: trying to update gcc, how do you patch stuff?

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From: B.A.McCauley
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <585h2a$jlu@agate.berkeley.edu> dab@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (David A. Beckwith) writes:
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>I'm trying to upgrade gcc to 2.7.2
>
>I have the file gcc-2.7.0.bin.tar.gz  (4,094 KB)
>and the file    gcc-2.7.2-linux_diff.gz  (3 KB)
>
>What do I do with these now?

Throw them away.  You can't patch a binary distribution with a source
code patch.

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