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.
And I imagine both of you have testcases available to prove your respective claims..... ? ;) Oh look, a hippo! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/