From: pete@horus.cix.co.uk (Pete Jordan) Subject: Re: patch - strange behaviour 8 Aug 1997 06:26:34 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: X-Mail-Software: Ameol2 X-URL: http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com wbach@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at (Wolfgang Bachmann) wrote: > patch aborts a after some patches, typically a few files, with the > message "Assertion hunk failed ..." (don't remember exact wording). > > If I split the patch file into seven parts, I can apply the separate > patch files without problems. I can live with that, but it's > inconvenient. > > Has anyone got an idea what's going on? Yep. The patch (2.1) that comes with GNU-Win32 b18 is broken - I got exactly the same problem with Chris faylor's Perl patches. Grab and build patch 2.4 from your friendly local GNU archive. Apropos nothing, from the patch ChangeLog: > Thu Jun 10 21:13:47 1993 Paul Eggert (eggert@twinsun.com) > > * patchlevel.h: PATCH_VERSION 2.1. > (The name `patch-2.0.12g12' is too long for traditional Unix.) Well, it's as good a reason to bump up from 2.0.x to 2.1 as any, I suppose... Pete Jordan = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Horus Communications http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "'Not twisted,' Salzy once said of her own passion, 'it is helical. That sounds better.'" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".