About this task
When you create a patch, you need to include new versions of the projects to be rebuilt. The following paragraphs describe what to include in your patch project:
- If a developer is fixing a defect in an executable, the developer would change the code in the project that rebuilds the executable; therefore, your patch would include only a version of the projects that contain changed code used to build the executable.
- If the defect was in a library, the developer would change the code, you would rebuild the library, then rebuild every executable that links with it. Therefore, you would need projects for the library and all of the executables that link with it, and external projects, if you use them.
Often, the developer assigned to fix the bug can tell you which projects need to be rebuilt.
If you are using the installation image to build your patch, you will need the installation project.