Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/01/25/15:00:35
Eric Backus writes:
> I ported patch 2.0.12g8 from FSF when I did the rest of the FSF
> utilities. I don't recall encountering the problems you describe, but
> I don't recall if I've done EXACTLY what you did, so I can't give any
> guarantee. You can ftp this copy of patch from twok.ods.com, in
> directory ~ftp/pub/gnu-dos, in file miscfsf.zoo (during non-business
> hours, please). You'll find a bunch of other FSF binaries in there as
> well.
>
> However, I'm sure there must be a way to make your copy of patch work.
> Usually when I use patch, the contect diff file doesn't specify a path
> to the file I'm patching. Perhaps the path is confusing your patch
> program. You could try editing the contect diff file to remove the
> "curses.old/" and "curses/" from the first two lines, and see if patch
> works better in this case.
(Hmmm, patching the patch file :-) Indeed this works ! Thanks.
Perhaps we could replace the DJGPP 'patch' program with your version
in next releases of DJGPP, because the use of path names for patches
seems to be a necessary option in some cases.
--
Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)
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