Wierd patch problem + simple fix

[Terry Lincoln]

Hi,

The final problem you describe is simply because patch is trying to mv
(rename) across drive barriors.

This could be fixed if mv would fall back to 'cp & rm' in situations where
the source and destination drives differ.

Regards,

W. Terry Lincoln
Senior Solution Developer [Linux Registered User #99583]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 2:42 AM
Subject: Wierd patch problem + simple fix


> This behavior seems to have cropped up only recently, but I don't know
> *exactly* which of the myriad upgrades to my cygwin installation
> triggered it.
>
> patch gives a strange error:
>
> $ patch -p1 < ../binutils-patch
> patching file `ld/emultempl/pe.em'
> patch: **** can't rename `E:\TEMP/po002169' to `ld/emultempl/pe.em' :
> File exists
>
> I thought it may have been related to the line-ending troubles of
> cygwin-1.1.1, but after trying both the 5/19 snapshot and the 4/19
> snapshot, neither fixed it. This did:
>
> $ echo $TMP
> E:\TEMP
> $ export TMP=/tmp
>
> and then patch works just fine.
>
>
> So, here's two questions to ponder: why is patch now sensitive to the
> $TMP variable, and why didn't cygwin1.dll translate the pre-existing
> windows variable 'TMP' into /e/temp (since E: is mounted on /e)?
>
> Which leads to the following:
>
> $ export TMP=/e/TEMP
> $ patch -p1 -R < ../binutils-patch
> patching file `ld/emultempl/pe.em'
> patch: **** can't rename `/e/TEMP/po002198' to `ld/emultempl/pe.em' :
> File exists
>
> Weird.
>
> --Chuck
>
> P.S. I've gotta stress that whatever the underlying cause of this
> behavior, simply setting $TMP to /tmp, or unsetting it (e.g. 'export
> TMP=') will work around the problem.
>
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