Patching Features

[Rcdude10tc32]

I wrote a couple features for my rockbox that are just some things I like, not really valuable to the total build. Everytime I want to upgrade to a new firmware I have to go back into the code and add all the stuff for my aditional features.  What would be  the best process to be able to just apply my changes to newer code.

Thanks
-Justin

[AlexP]

I'm not quite sure what you are asking.

Obviously every time you want to upgrade you need to compile a new build.  If you are using svn, when you svn up it should try to sync your changes with the updated source, and you can then compile.  Unless there is a clash you should not need to reapply (patch) your changes to the soure every time.

[Rcdude10tc32]

no you totally got it, thats basically the solution. I've been reading about SVN and i'm not using it yet. I've just been downloading the lastest source and using a text editor.   I didn't know it auto-updates your code, thats actually really awesome.  Thanks alot

-Justin

[AlexP]

I would thoroughly recommend using SVN over downloading the source, it is so much more powerful.  What operating system are you on?

[psycho_maniac]

yeah using "svn up" is so much easier. all i have to do is go to my rockbox directory type "svn up" then when thats done go to my buld folder and run the make && make zip.

[Rcdude10tc32]

I'm on XP at the moment, but i'm going to linux (Ubuntu) for this real soon.  I'm sick of cygwin taking so long.  But for now I just installed svn, got it all working, and it is awesome.  I for some reason thought it was going to be a lot harder than it was.  Is installing svn on linux just as simple?

Oh and psycho_maniac, thanks as well,
I was having trouble making a simulator build earlier, It had been a little while since I had to use cygwin and I forgot to mkdir the build directory, and your post reminded me that.  ha so thanks!

[Tri Nguyen]

If you use ubuntu then you just need to type "sudo apt-get install subversion" on a terminal and anything is installed.

[AlexP]

Yes, as Tri Nguyen says, subversion is dead easy to install on linux.  Whilst (IMO) building on linux is the quickest/easiest solution, have you also looked at the VMWare image?  It is a lot quicker to build than cygwin.

[yapper]

There is a good guide in the wiki http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SimpleGuideToCompiling

Slightly off topic, but using my old laptop (Windows XP/Celeron M 1.5GHz/256M RAM/Cygwin), it takes 340 seconds to 'make' r16005 after a 'make clean'.

Does anyone have timings for a similar PC using VMWare and/or linux?