From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (Pieter Kunst)
Subject: Re: 'Patch' program problem
To: ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com (Eric Backus)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:05:37 MET
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30]


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.

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Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)