On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:35:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The official cygwin copy of Larry Wall's "patch" program is mired at > version 2.5.0 (which was released way back in 1997). The currently > released version is 2.5.4 (which is still from 1999). 2.5.8 is available > from the ftp://alpha.gnu.org website > > The main reason I'm mentioning is that 2.5.4 is necessary for "--posix" > switch which is what you sometimes need to get multi-directory CVS diff > files to work right as well as correcting a CR/LF issue I was running into. > I have been using 2.5.8 for a few months now and was using 2.5.4 for years > before that and haven't run into any problems.
I put that on my todo list. There are several Cygwin specific patches in our 2.5.0 so this needs some attention. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
