Patching Firebird

[Harold Crouch <hcrouch@mchsi.com>]

My browser is Firebird 0.7, which I downloaded from:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7

I noticed recently that there is a patch available at:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7.1

I have never before patched a program, and this seemed like a good
opportunity to learn something new.

Firebird 0.7 resides in /usr/src/MozillaFirebird/. 
No installation is necessary; the directory contains every resource
that the browser requires.  ./MozillaFirebird and you're off!

I downloaded the patch into that directory, unpacked it, and tried the
following three commands:

patch  MozillaFirebird  firebird-0.7-0.7.1.patch 
patch  -p  MozillaFirebird  firebird-0.7-0.7.1.patch 
patch  --strip  MozillaFirebird  firebird-0.7-0.7.1.patch

No joy.  :-(

The patch seems to blow up at line 46.  I looked at that line, but it
didn't mean anything to me.  :-(

I sort of got the idea that the patch might be trying to access a cvs
file.  I did a "which cvs," which confirmed that cvs *is* installed on
my box.

I have run this patch both a root and as a user, with the same results each way.

Suggestions, please.

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