Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <39282118.9FDC8D10@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:47:04 -0400 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corinna Vinschen , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Wierd patch problem + simple fix References: <392633C8 DOT 4B20FBE5 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <20000520215546 DOT E2054 AT cygnus DOT com> <39277F56 DOT 43288E5E AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3927DD35 DOT C31AC4AA AT vinschen DOT de> <39281921 DOT F9EA43D1 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Charles S. Wilson" wrote: > > Diagnosis confirmed. I'll check on patch-2.5.3. > ftp.gnu.org has 2.5.4, but it doesn't seem to fix this problem. $ patch --version patch 2.5.4 [....] $ cd /usr/local/src/bzip2-1.0.0 $ export TMP=/tmp # e.g. both are on my F: drive $ patch -p1 < ../bzip2-1.0.0-1.patch patching file Makefile patching file bzlib.h patching file libbz2.def $ export TMP=/e/TEMP $ patch -p1 -R < ../bzip2-1.0.0-1.patch patching file Makefile patch: **** Can't rename file /e/TEMP/po002588 to Makefile : File exists Now, there are about 47K of diffs between cygwin's patch-src.tar.gz and gnu's patch-2.5.tar.gz; I did not attempt to synchonize my version of 2.5.4 with cygwin's changes. My patch-2.5.4 is straight from gnu. (So, I suspect 'TMP=E:\\TEMP' would fail, but for reasons unrelated to the bug we're investigating here). --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com