Re: Patch patch

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Sun, 27 Jul 1997 22:29:53 +0200


Pavel Machek:

: But now I have bug, I have fix, but I do not know who to post it. I
: know it is not too much related to kernel (except that bug may bite
: you, too)...

: --- pch.c~ Tue Jun 1 03:54:19 1993
: +++ pch.c Sun Jul 27 19:12:35 1997
: @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
: if (force || batch) {
: say1("No file to patch. Skipping...\n");
: filearg[0] = savestr(bestguess);
: + skip_rest_of_patch = TRUE;
: return TRUE;
: }
: ask1("File to patch: ");

Ah, you are patching an ancient patch. Last September I made
patch-2.1b (found on ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/util), which
fixes lots of minor bugs in patch. Also the above fix is included.

More recently Paul Eggert has been updating patch for GNU.
There were a few bad versions (don't use patch-2.2 or patch-2.3)
but the current patch-2.4 may be OK (I have not used it yet).

Andries