Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:00:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: patch unusable to apply patches to binary files Message-ID: <20030818160041.GB3101@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <004501c3657f$289744c0$6b547ad5@starfruit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004501c3657f$289744c0$6b547ad5@starfruit> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Because patch always reads its input in textmode, it cannot be used to apply > patches to binary files - e.g. gcc-core-3.3-3.3.1.diff, which updates binary > .gmo files. Bummer. I guess I have to patch patch once more. I'll recycle the --binary option again for this kind of situation as soon as I find some spare time to do that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/