Re: patch - strange behaviour

[pete at horus dot cix dot co dot uk (Pete Jordan)]

wbach@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at (Wolfgang Bachmann) wrote:

> 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?

Yep. The patch (2.1) that comes with GNU-Win32 b18 is broken - I got
exactly the same problem with Chris faylor's Perl patches.

Grab and build patch 2.4 from your friendly local GNU archive.

Apropos nothing, from the patch ChangeLog:

> Thu Jun 10 21:13:47 1993  Paul Eggert  (eggert@twinsun.com)
>
>     * patchlevel.h: PATCH_VERSION 2.1.
>     (The name `patch-2.0.12g12' is too long for traditional Unix.)

Well, it's as good a reason to bump up from 2.0.x to 2.1 as any, I
suppose...

Pete Jordan
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