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- From: bde@runx.oz.AU (Bruce Evans)
- Subject: patch-2.00.12u8 has problems applying diffs for gcc-2.3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.160714.27486@runx.oz.au>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:07:14 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 18
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- 1. Recent versions of patch are broken for read-only files with names of
- maximal length. For read-only files, patch tries various RCS filenames
- to see if the file should be extracted from RCS. When the file name
- has maximal length and the system truncates file names, patch thinks that
- the RCS file exists although it has only found the original file. Then
- patch runs RCS. RCS of course fails, and patch exits with a fatal error
- (it shouldn't be fatal). Old versions of patch apparently avoided this
- problem by not looking in the current directory for RCS files.
-
- 2. Somehow the patch for texinfo.tex had misordered hunks. This used to
- be a nonfatal error, as it should be. It is now fatal.
-
- 3. patch exited after failing to create objc/Makefile. It worked OK
- when I created the subdirectory objc first. I could not reproduce the
- problem in smaller examples. patch-2.00.12u worked OK.
- --
- Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au)
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