Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <39281921.F9EA43D1@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:13:05 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Wierd patch problem + simple fix References: <392633C8.4B20FBE5@ece.gatech.edu> <20000520215546.E2054@cygnus.com> <39277F56.43288E5E@ece.gatech.edu> <3927DD35.C31AC4AA@vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Diagnosis confirmed. I'll check on patch-2.5.3. /e/temp $ tar cf - -C /usr/local/src bzip2-1.0.0 | tar xf - /e/temp $ cd bzip2-1.0.0 /e/temp/bzip2-1.0.0 $ export TMP=E:\\TEMP /e/temp/bzip2-1.0.0 $ patch -p1 < ../bzip2-1.0.0-1.patch patching file `Makefile' patching file `bzlib.h' patching file `libbz2.def' Also, E:/TEMP, /e/TEMP/, /cygdrive/e/TEMP/ all work okay. --Chuck Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'm completely unable to reproduce that problem... > > ...as far as the $TMP directory is on the same drive > as the patched file! > > Terry Wilson gave the correct hint. Nothing has changed > with patch itself. It tries to rename the temp file to > the name of the file that should be patched and failes > because the rename failes across drives. > > AFAICS we are releasing patch 2.5 in latest. My Linux > edition has a patch version 2.5.3. Maybe that is already > fixed in that version. > > Corinna > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com