From: aldham@lennon.postino.com Subject: Re: Perl5.004_01 patch for b18 30 Jul 1997 21:04:35 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199707310334.DAA28096.cygnus.gnu-win32@lennon.postino.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from Pete Jordan at "Jul 30, 97 02:03:00 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > > Like I said in c.l.p.misc, I had to split the patchfile up. I did it with a > Perl script but, if you haven't got a working Perl ATM, you could use awk. > > Chris Faylor said to me: > > I think that the patch that is distributed in cdk.exe is essentially > > brain dead. I ended up recompiling the latest version from > > prep.ai.mit.edu and it works much better. > > I haven't yet tried this, but it might be a better way for you to proceed. > No, none of the above. I moved the source to a trusty unix box where I could apply the patch. Also found I had to make a lot of changes to the hints file: paths etc. Certainly is more bleeding edge than I expected. Something in the patch regarding the bad patch program might be a nice touch. -- Danny Aldham SCO Ace , MCSE , JAPH , DAD I don't need to hide my e-mail address, I broke my sendmail. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".