Re: Where is patch?

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:36:05PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: 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? 2.5.4 is the latest stable version. Development versions are on

Re: Where is patch?

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul, where will the next stable version appear? At ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch or ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils ? At this point I'm planning to make 'patch' part of diffutils. No schedule yet, though. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-18 Thread René Berber
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Err... huh? [snip] After re-building patch 2.5.9 the problem (in the test case) does not appear. Conclusion: the currently distributed patch 2.5.9 was compiled with perhaps an older Cygwin environment or at least one that made configure get a different result to

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 15:22, Ren? Berber wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [snip] And I imagine both of you have testcases available to prove your respective claims. ? Test case attached. The files are part of mailman, I just included a shortened patch file and the file to be patched. The test

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
René Berber wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [snip] And I imagine both of you have testcases available to prove your respective claims. ? Test case attached. The files are part of mailman, I just included a shortened patch file and the file to be patched. The test procedure (with the

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Joe Smith on 12/14/2005 8:43 PM: Well, path 2.5.9 is available from an official gnu server, but is in a very strange place: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/ diffutils? in the main archive it is in its own directory! Yes, because

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Joe Smith wrote: Actually considering that the changelog of 2.5.9 indicates that it is an actual release, it seems likely that it was never moved over to the main site only because it was in the wrong directory. What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded gcc-core and make and some other things. Trying to run ./conficure I get configure:1652: checking for C compiler default output configure:1655: gccconftest.c 5 Assembler messages: FATAL:

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Dave Korn wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded gcc-core and make and some other things. Trying to run ./conficure I get configure:1652: checking for C compiler default output configure:1655: gccconftest.c 5 Assembler

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded gcc-core and make and some other things. Trying to run ./conficure I get configure:1652: checking for C compiler default output configure:1655: gcc

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Dave Korn wrote: What do I need to be able to build patch 2.5.9 for Cygwin? I downloaded gcc-core and make and some other things. OK, so what happens if you try a command like as -o /cygdrive/d/temp/foo.o /dev/null or a command like touch /cygdrive/d/temp/ccXbQKlo.o cheers,

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Lennart Borgman wrote: Thanks! There is a hit, I did not have as from Cygwin. Changed my path a bit. But how do I find as? I would get the package search as it is now is of no big use for such a name? ;-) Sigh. 'as' is part of binutils. It contains the assembler and linker and you will not

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Thanks! There is a hit, I did not have as from Cygwin. Changed my path a bit. But how do I find as? I would get the package search as it is now is of no big use for such a name? ;-) Heh, that's true, although there is a handy trick for the package search: since

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Dave Korn wrote: Heh, that's true, although there is a handy trick for the package search: since cygwin runs on windows, all executables use the .exe ending in cygwin packages. Compare: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=as Cygwin Package List Search Results Found 755 matches

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Brian Dessent wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: Thanks! There is a hit, I did not have as from Cygwin. Changed my path a bit. But how do I find as? I would get the package search as it is now is of no big use for such a name? ;-) Sigh. 'as' is part of binutils. It contains the

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Lennart Borgman wrote: Dave Korn wrote: And the answer is that as is the GNU assembler, and it is part of the binutils package, which lives under the 'Devel' category in setup. Thanks for this! That trick is so handy in my opinion so it ought to be as a tip on the search page right under

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: Lennart Borgman wrote: Dave Korn wrote: And the answer is that as is the GNU assembler, and it is part of the binutils package, which lives under the 'Devel' category in setup. Thanks for this! That trick is so handy in my opinion so it ought to be as a tip on

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread René Berber
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Err... huh? [...] $ patch --version patch 2.5.8 [...] $ cd mailman-2.1.6/ $ patch -p1 --dry-run ../indexing-2.1.6-0.1.patch patching file templates/da/archidxfoot.html $ patch -p1 ../indexing-2.1.6-0.1.patch patching file templates/da/archidxfoot.html

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Dave Korn wrote: Hooray! Thanks ;-) 1) You didn't say if you've run make install yet though, you should do that rather than attempting to manually copy all the files to their correct locations. I tried a just to copy patch.exe. Then I saw this that I just wish I did not. Here is a

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Dave Korn
Lennart Borgman wrote: I tried a just to copy patch.exe. Then I saw this that I just wish I did not. Here is a copy and paste from my screen output (a bit truncated): from my screen /cygdrive/d/dl/gnu/patch-2.5.9 ./patch.exe --version patch 2.5.9 ... /cygdrive/d/dl/gnu/patch-2.5.9

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Lennart Borgman wrote: I am not sure I understand what you mean. What is the requires line? It is in the setup.ini file (which is generated from the individual setup.hint files), which are not directly seen by the user but parsed by setup.exe. Where is it? Should binutils have been dowloaded

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Dave Korn wrote: This is (one of the reasons) why you should never put . in your $PATH! Thanks, but I did not. Also, after installing new software, you need to use hash -r to refresh bash's cached list of locations of executables. Ah, there it is. This is what I needed. --

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Lennart Borgman
Brian Dessent wrote: I am not sure I understand what you mean. What is the requires line? It is in the setup.ini file (which is generated from the individual setup.hint files), which are not directly seen by the user but parsed by setup.exe. Where is it? Should binutils have been

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Lennart Borgman wrote: I believe I did that without opening anything in the selection tree first, but I am not totally sure. Is it necessary to open a node in the tree for the process to continue? No, it's not necessary. It should fill in any missing packages regardless of what you do.

Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Lennart Borgman
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? Who maintains patch? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 19:30, 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? Cygwin patch is 2.5.8.

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Lennart Borgman
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 14 19:30, 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?

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread René Berber
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

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
René Berber wrote: The latest GNU patch version compiles out of the box *Where* is the latest GNU patch version? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
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

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread René Berber
Dave Korn wrote: René Berber wrote: The latest GNU patch version compiles out of the box *Where* is the latest GNU patch version? In any of the GNU mirrors and of course in ftp.gnu.org -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Lennart Borgman
René 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

RE: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Richard Campbell
*** For Emacs: I would like the default on MS Windows to be CR-LF line endings. That would in my opinion be less surpricing for an MS Windows user. 1. My opinion is that \n line endings on Cygwin (a Unix-ish environment) are less surprising. 2. Cygwin already has a feature for determining

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:10:52PM -, Dave Korn wrote: 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

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:28:54PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: There are two things I would like here: There's only one thing I'd like right now: pie. It's a seasonal thing... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread René Berber
that. It came from Thunderbird on MS Windows and I just pasted into a new file in Emacs. Then Emacs made the decision to save the file with LF line endings. That's similar to the situation where I found that Cygwin's patch doesn't work, the patch file had some ^M, the file to patch didn't and patch

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread René Berber
Dave Korn wrote: [snip] And I imagine both of you have testcases available to prove your respective claims. ? Test case attached. The files are part of mailman, I just included a shortened patch file and the file to be patched. The test procedure (with the output I get): $ mkdir

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Smith
Lennart Borgman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 14 19:30, 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

Re: Where is patch?

2005-12-14 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:28:54 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Emacs Devel emacs-devel@gnu.org *** For patch: I would like it to discover that the line ending type of the patch file and the file to patch differ. Patch does that already if you use the