From: colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: b18 "patch" assertion fails 18 May 1997 22:43:20 -0700 Sender: mail@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC6453.137F3C20.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Original-To: "'Gary Bishop'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Gary Bishop[SMTP:gb@cs.unc.edu] wrote: >patch dies with > >assertion "hunk" failed: file "/home/noer/src/beta18/cdk/patch/patch.c", >line 339 > >when I try to apply Sergey's patches for X11R6.3. It has successfully >applied several patches before failing. > >Anyone else seen this? I saw this error, among others, when trying to get a diff I had made to properly patch some files I have. I also saw patch become strangely confused on a couple of hunks and output a lot of garbage into the "patched" file. I heard that patch was broken in b17.1, and it seems to me that it is still broken in b18... Maybe you could try rebuilding patch from the GNU sources... Colin. -- Colin Peters - colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".