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Re: does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools?
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- Subject: Re: does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:49:32 +0200
- References: <200107170940.KAA15755@ireserver.Ireland.Sun.COM>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:40:12AM +0100, Armin Theissen wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I searched the website for this problem, but cannot find anything
> so I want to ask you here.
>
> I have a patch (see attachment, supposed to patch three files down the
> directory tree) which won't work using the patch.exe tool provided with
> cygwin. However, it works perfectly with other patch.exe tools
> (UnxUtils from http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html)
> and on unix systems itself.
>
> I wonder what could make the patch work with the cygwin patching
> tool.
>
> The patch command is 'patch -b -p2'
>
> Any ideas?
Without details about the error you get from patch? No.
Corinna
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