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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3AA640C2.61D96C57@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:08:02 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Rees CC: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file References: <4nrbat4k7l19ndugn851cro7072ai9ftqt@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Rees wrote: > > Kevin Wright emailed me a suggestion that allowed me to find a > solution (thanks!), but I still think there may be something wrong > with patch. > > First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it > for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking down the problem. > > Also, as I hope I implied (but didn't say) in my previous email, > altering the diff file to use backward slashes as follows also causes > patch to run fine: > |--- src\testcases\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\ZipTest.java 2001/03/02 16:01:01 1.3 > |+++ src\testcases\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\ZipTest.java 2001/03/07 00:11:39 > > All this said, using "-p0" or "-p" solves the problem. However, from > my understanding, patch should do -p0 by default since its a relative > directory. So what I think seems to be happening is that patch doesn't > recognize a relative path inside a patch file as relative if it uses > forward slashes. > Hmm... Are you sure it's a Cygwinized patch? What does the output of `cygcheck patch' give? Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple