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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any of our osx devs have an opinion on this?  It doesn't impact me so I
would rather the devs who have to use this make the call.

On 12/29/2017 03:33 PM, Anton Shevchenko wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Looking through the code style guide (i'm new here) I didn't find a word about how a patch file should reference source code file. By patch file I mean *.patch file located in kicad/patches folder.
> 
> Being on macOS I'm trying to apply all the patches required for building wxWidgets and have found that there are 2 different styles in use.
> First style references source code files without prefix. To apply such a patch one has to run 'patch -p0'.
> The other style uses a/ and b/ prefixes which is used with 'patch -p1' option.
> In my opinion the last one is more common (and if you run 'git diff' you will see a/ and b/ prefixes).
> 
> I would like to fix macOS patches stuff to be able to actually follow the guide (http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html#build_osx) in order to build KiCad for macOS.
> 
> Any comments?
>