[Apologies for not being able to answer your mail earlier.] Andrew Haninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I applied the patch by hand, instead, and it compiled and when > installed, it worked as expected. > > However, I'd still be interested to know how I would have applied this > if I knew what I was doing. Probably some whitespace conversion (tab -> spaces, or vice versa) occurred when you saved the patch. The option -l helps in this case: $ cd tar-1.15.1 $ patch -p0 -l < patchfile patching file src/tar.c Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
