From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: Question on GPP 2.8.1 and DJGPP Lines: 21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:46:16 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.148.32 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT ntlworld DOT com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 994855497 62.252.148.32 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:44:57 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:44:57 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > > Sounds like the diff was made on a non-LFN aware platform. You could > > try setting LFN=n, apply the patch and then reset LFN=y > > This will only work if the numeric tails were turned off (see section > 22.19 of the FAQ for details). > > I think a much less painful way would be to edit the patch file, and > manuall modify the file names to their original long names. If done > carefully, this will produce a patch that will simply work with no fuss. I've modified some of the file names in the patch file, but with each file comes more hunks that don't work. I give up with this. This is a stable version of the compiler that isn't building, i switched from the most recent alpha hoping that it would build but it's not. I don't even know what a hunk is or if the ones it can't apply are unimportant. Thanks, Chris Campbell