Where is patch?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 15 02:44:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Ren? Berber wrote:
> 
>>Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>>>I am having trouble with patch.  My Cygwin patch (and my GnuWin32
>>>patch) says it is version 2.5.9.  But where is the sources for this?  I
>>>looked at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch and they only have version 2.5.4.
>>>How can that be?
>>
>>The latest GNU patch version compiles out of the box and it works
>>better than the one distributed with Cygwin.  By "works better" I mean
>>that Cygwin's patch sometimes fail when GNU patch works perfect.
> 
> 
> I've found that GNU patch doesn't work but cygwin's patch works just
> fine.
> 
> So, no need to panic.


Eeeeeeeeeeks... huh?  Oh sorry.

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