Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!bradr
From: bradr@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ST 1.5.0: patch(1) won't patch
Message-ID: <4937.25d09851@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 8 Feb 90 02:51:13 GMT
References: <10401@nigel.udel.EDU>
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In article <10401@nigel.udel.EDU>, F35KER%DHHDESY3.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kerst van Raden) writes:
> Hi everybody!
> While upgrading my system to ST 1.5.0 I ran into the following problem:
> I had unpacked the cdiffs in the src/fs directory and tried to patch
> the 1.1 files. I entered
> for i in *.cdif; do patch <$i ; done .
> patch processed most of the diffs without error but it broke on 8 of
> them with messages that said something like:
> |*** anyfile.xyz
> |--- anyotherfile.xyz
> ------------------------
> Patching file anyotherfile.xyz using Plan A ...
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 4.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 10.
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 15.
> Hunk #4 succeeded at 25.
> Hmm... The next patch looks like a new-style context diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------------
> |-
> --------------------------------
> 
> and then there is an error message saying,that it can't patch this file.
> 

I had this problem too.  If you have been following the upgrade directions
in order then by now you will have created the new library libc.a.  Try
recompiling patch now and it should be fine.  Apparently, there were some
bugs in the original library that show up in patch.

regards, brad