Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/02/21/14:28:22
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 21 15:35, pedro_alves AT portugalmail DOT pt wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> While looking at why 'quilt annotate' is broken in Cygwin, I found
>> something fishy on 'patch' in ed mode. Looks like reading the patch
>> from stdin is broken. Reading the patch from a file with -i works
>> ok. Here is how to reproduce:
>>
>> $ touch a.txt
>>
>> $ cat << EOF > b.txt
>>
>>> a new line
>>> EOF
>>>
>> $ diff -e a.txt b.txt > ab.diff
>>
>> $ cat ab.diff
>> 0a
>> a new line
>>
>
> The diff file also contains a third line with just a single dot.
> If I feed this to patch from stdin, everything's fine:
>
> $ patch < ab.diff
> can't find file to patch at input line 1
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> File to patch: a.txt
> $ cat a.txt
> a new line
> $
>
> Where's the problem exactly?
>
>
>
(Here is the original message I tried to send earlier, sorry for the mess.)
Hi guys,
While looking at why 'quilt annotate' is broken in Cygwin, I found
something fishy on 'patch' in ed mode. Looks like reading the patch
from stdin is broken. Reading the patch from a file with -i works
ok. Here is how to reproduce:
$ touch a.txt
$ cat << EOF > b.txt
> > a new line
> > EOF
>
$ diff -e a.txt b.txt > ab.diff
$ cat ab.diff
0a
a new line
.
$ patch -e a.txt < ab.diff
$ /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/pt104167/LOCALS~1/Temp/poL0ERTu: No such file
or directory
#(a.txt should have the same contents as b.txt at this point)
$ cat a.txt
$ cat ab.diff | patch -e a.txt
$ /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/pt104167/LOCALS~1/Temp/po5so3lD: No such file
or directory
#(still wrong contents)
$ cat a.txt
$ patch -e a.txt -i ab.diff
#(ok now.)
$ cat a.txt
a new line
That 'No such file' error message comes from ed, or so it seems.
It looks like something is going wrong with the pipe to ed
(patch/pch.c:do_ed_script), but I can't see what. The filename passed
to it is correct, but somehow, when the pipe is fflushed ed barks.
If I put a _cexit before the pipe is flushed, ed doesn't complain.
I also tested it on kubuntu 6.06, and on Solaris 10 with gnu patch,
gnu diff and Sun ed, and it worked correctly, so it does look
like a Cygwin specific problem.
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.24-2 OK
patch 2.5.8-9 OK
diffutils 2.8.7-1 OK
ed 0.2-1 OK
(end original message)
As Corinna found out, not specifying the file to patch, but doing
it interactively works ok. That should make it easier to debug.
$ patch -e < ab.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 1
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
File to patch: a.txt
$ cat a.txt
a new line
$
$ patch -e a.txt < ab.diff
/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/DEFINI~1/Temp/poh0o0Rq: No such file or
directory
Cheers,
Pedro Alves
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