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Re: Bug with Cygwin's 'quilt' is actually in 'patch'
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:46:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bug with Cygwin's 'quilt' is actually in 'patch'
- References: <51BFEB6E dot 2040404 at codespunk dot com> <51BFF1F9 dot 4040205 at codespunk dot com> <51C277A4 dot 20709 at codespunk dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jun 19 23:31, Matt D. wrote:
> I've been looking further into this and it appears as though the
> problem is in 'patch' not 'quilt'. quilt is actually a collection of
> bash scripts and calls patch to do the actual patching.
>
> Using the same example I provided earlier in the thread, the same
> error occurs when calling patch directly:
>
> $ patch Imakefile patches/test.patch
>
> Running dos2unix on test.patch will allow the patch to apply
> successfully. However, this is WRONG. Imakefile and the initially
> created test.patch both use CRLF line endings. The patch should
> definitely NOT apply by introducing actual disparity.
>
> To summarize, the patch to Imakefile (CRLF) will apply if it is
> converted to LF line endings. Using the '--binary' switch seems to
> be a workaround for this issue.
I can reproduce this problem on 32 bit Cygwin but not on 64 bit Cygwin.
The 64 bit version has a newer patch version 2.7.1, while I so far
neglected to update the 32 bit version which is still on 2.6.1. I'll
build a new patch 2.7.1 for 32 bit today. I hope that fixes it for
32 bit as well. Stay tuned for the announcement.
Corinna
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