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Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:08:02 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>David Rees wrote:
>>
>> Kevin Wright emailed me a suggestion that allowed me to find a
>> solution (thanks!), but I still think there may be something wrong
>> with patch.
>>
>> First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it
>> for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking down the problem.
>>
>> Also, as I hope I implied (but didn't say) in my previous email,
>> altering the diff file to use backward slashes as follows also causes
>> patch to run fine:
>> |--- src\testcases\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\ZipTest.java 2001/03/02 16:01:01 1.3
>> |+++ src\testcases\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\ZipTest.java 2001/03/07 00:11:39
>>
>> All this said, using "-p0" or "-p" solves the problem. However, from
>> my understanding, patch should do -p0 by default since its a relative
>> directory. So what I think seems to be happening is that patch doesn't
>> recognize a relative path inside a patch file as relative if it uses
>> forward slashes.
>>
>
>Hmm... Are you sure it's a Cygwinized patch? What does the output of
>`cygcheck patch' give?
>
$ cygcheck patch
Found: C:\apps\cygwin\bin\patch.exe
C:\apps\cygwin\bin\patch.exe
C:\apps\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
d
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