Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:32:47 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: broken patch program Message-ID: <20001019133247.C785@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin Mailing List References: <4.3.1.2.20001019112654.020041a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20001019112654.020041a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:28:26AM -0400 On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:28:26AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 09:53 AM 10/19/2000, stefan wrote: >>is it known to you that `patch' does not apply `diff's output in most >>cases ? It always looks like this. >> >> . >> . >> . >>patching file `gdbm-1.8.0/gdbmerrno.c' >>assertion "hunk" failed: file "/src/patch/patch.c", line 334 >> 0 [sig] PATCH 1001 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to >>PATCH.EXE.stackdump >>Segmentation fault (core dumped) >> >>I was using the latest net release "shipped" with cygwin 1.1.4. But i >>noticed this problem all he time i am using cygwin. That is why i got used >>to use `diff' but `patch' on my linux box. >> >>stefan@lkcc.org > >This is news to me, and I've used patch with some regularity since b19... I think that this is the perfect opportunity to say that I would gratefully accept a patch to fix this behavior. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com