From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Patching under cygwin32 and W95 28 Apr 1998 22:17:24 -0700 Sender: root@cygnus.com Message-ID: <19980428131131.11747.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1c.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com To: David Bush , xemacs-nt@xemacs.org Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi David, Are you positive that you are using the patch binary from the CDK? While in bash if you do "type patch" what is the result? I have been built the patch binary with mingw32. I saw this error as a direct result of link/unlink of temporary to existing files. I modified the code so that it uses Win32 calls to take care of the rename/copy. If you wish to try my version of patch I can strip and gzip the executable and attach it to an email. I have been successful in using it; at least with context diffs. ---David Bush wrote: > > I apologize if this question has come up before. The gnuwin32 mail archives > are not much use on this one because a search for "patch" returns most of > the archive. > > I'm trying to apply a large patch for Xemacs to the source tree. The patch > application fails on the first file in the patch with a message like: > cannot rename /tmp/ps001020 to CHANGES-beta: File exists. > > Is this a know problem and is there a workaround? > > TIA, > david > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd@yahoo.com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".