On 07/25/2018 04:22 PM, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> 2018-07-26 1:20 GMT+02:00 Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>:
>> On 07/25/2018 03:58 PM, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>> 2018-07-25 20:22 GMT+02:00 Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>:
>>>> On 07/25/2018 10:56 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> [quilt v0.65]
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't usually use quilt mail to send patches, but I was just trying
>>>>> to do that and keep having this error.
>>>>>
>>>>> It happens whether I use -M intro_file_name or just let quilt invoke
>>>>> $EDITOR to generate an intro file:
>>>>>
>>>>> Introduction has no subject header (saved as /tmp/quilt.rXd573)
>>>>>
>>>>> and that file looks like this:
>>>>> Message-Id: <[email protected]>
>>>>> User-Agent: quilt/0.65
>>>>> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:01:18 -0700
>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>>> Bcc:
>>>>> Subject-Prefix: [PATCH @num@/@total@]
>>>>> Subject: arc: some allmodconfig fixup patches
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are a few patches that fix build errors or warnings that
>>>>> I encountered while doing arc "allmodconfig" builds.
>>>>>
>>>>> These patches do not fix all of the build issues.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h            |    2 ++
>>>>>  arch/arc/mm/cache.c                     |   11 ++++++-----
>>>>>  arch/arc/plat-eznps/include/plat/ctop.h |    1 +
>>>>>  arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c               |    6 ++++--
>>>>>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>> <EOF>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> User error (of course).  Missing "series" file.
>>>>
>>>> Now that I have a series file, I get this error:
>>>> Unable to extract a subject header from 001-arc-delay-use-intll64h.patch
>>>>
>>>> where the first line in that file is:
>>>> Subject: arc: fix some build issues in delay.h
>>>>
>>>> Is there a trick to conjuring quilt into accepting a Subject: line?
>>>
>>> It should accept that by default. Is 001-arc-delay-use-intll64h.patch
>>> located in the patches/ directory, where quilt expects all the patches
>>> to be located by default?
>>>
>>> The following works for me:
>>>
>>> $ cat patches/series
>>> foo.patch
>>> $ cat patches/foo.patch
>>> Subject: This is foo
>>>
>>> Index: agruenba/foo
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ agruenba/foo
>>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>>> +foo
>>> $ quilt mail --mbox mbox --subject Test
>>
>>
>> OK, I'm getting closer.  However, using "--subject" seems to be required.
>> Is that correct?  If I use "-M intro.txt" without --subject, quilt says:
>>
>> Introduction has no subject header
>>
>> even though it looks like this:
>> Subject: arc: some allmodconfig fixup patches
>> From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>>
>> Hi,
>> <+ more lines>
>>
>> But when I use --subject <whatever>, it does produce an mbox file for me.
> 
> It's complaining about the subject of the cover letter which you can
> either provide with --subject or fill in in the editor. That error
> could probably be downgraded to a warning though ...

but it does not produce an mbox file, so I don't think that's just a warning.

-- 
~Randy

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