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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:47:04 +0000
From: Parish <parish AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: Re: patch(1) (Win32) and path separators
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On 19/11/2002 18:14 Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) stood on a soap-box
and preached to the unwashed masses:

> At 01:10 PM 11/19/2002, Parish wrote:
>>patch(1) on Win32 seems to insist on '\' rather than '/' in the paths in diffs. This is somewhat at odds with diff(1) which uses '/', even on Windows.
>>
>>According to the manpage there is no option to change this behaviour.
>>
>>I have d/l the sources but have yet to build it (am I correct that it needs gcc to build, i.e. won't build with MSVC++?) with the intention of making my own version that works with '/'.
>>
>>Can anyone confirm that there isn't an undocumented option (cmd line or build) to make it use '/'? If there isn't, why is it that the Windows version works this way, especially when diff(1) DTRT?
> 
> 
> What patch are you using?  The Cygwin version works fine with '/'.  I have
> to assume that since you mention the "Windows version" that your talking 

No, the one installed by the cygwin setup program:

marder-1:/cygdrive/e/mozilla_src/mozilla{13}$ patch --version
patch 2.5
Copyright 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

written by Larry Wall with lots o' patches by Paul Eggert
marder-1:/cygdrive/e/mozilla_src/mozilla{14}$

This is what happens when I run it:

marder-1:/cygdrive/e/mozilla_src/mozilla{12}$ patch --dry-run <
../nsNativeAppSupportGtk.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 8
Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|Index: xpfe/bootstrap/nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp
|===================================================================
|RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/xpfe/bootstrap/nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp,v
|retrieving revision 1.9
|diff -u -r1.9 nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp
|--- xpfe/bootstrap/nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp   29 Aug 2002 03:04:36
-00001.9
|+++ xpfe/bootstrap/nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp   17 Nov 2002 22:06:07 -0000
--------------------------
File to patch:

The file, nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp exists:

marder-1:/cygdrive/e/mozilla_src/mozilla{14}$ ls -l
xpfe/bootstrap/nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp
-rwx------    1 marko    None         3624 Nov 17 22:11
xpfe/bootstrap/nsNativeAppSupportGtk.cpp
marder-1:/cygdrive/e/mozilla_src/mozilla{15}$

> about a native port and not the patch that's available through Cygwin.
> If that's a proper assumption, you don't have the right forum to discuss the 
> Windows native version of patch.  This list discusses Cygwin-related issues
> only.
> 
> Sorry,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> 838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> 
> 





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