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Re: patch - strange behaviour


In article <v02130500b00fc1f21707@[193.83.160.71]>,
Wolfgang Bachmann <wbach@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at> wrote:
>I've tried to apply Mumit Khan's patches to b18 and experienced very strage
>behaviour of patch:
>
>patch aborts a after some patches, typically a few files, with the message
>"Assertion hunk failed ..." (don't remember exact wording).
>
>If I split the patch file into seven parts, I can apply the separate patch
>files without problems. I can live with that, but it's inconvenient.
>
>Has anyone got an idea what's going on?

Yeah, you need a new patch.  The one supplied in cdk.exe is apparently
broken.  Grab the latest GNU sources from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu and
patch should configure and build.
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