Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/11/01/20:22:47
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 aschrotenboer AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:
> I finished building EGCS 1.1a, and then decided to patch the EGCS src to PGCC
> 1.1. my problem is that patch doesn't do anything. I type this in at the dos
> prompt: "patch egcs-1.1b-pgcc-1.1.diff". And patch just hangs there. The
> program does NOTHING. Ctrl-C just echoes to screen, and the only way to quit
> is to type exit (found that out by accident). Why doesn't patch do
> anything???????????????????????????????
Is that GNU Patch? Because you didn't specifiy the patch file
using `-i', it's reading it from stdin. Try either:
patch -i egcs-1.1b-pgcc-1.1.diff
or
patch < egcs-1.1b-pgcc-1.1.diff
Typing `exit' shouldn't have had any effect in itself, but the
Ctrl-C probably wasn't noticed until you hit Enter.
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