On Jun 20 09:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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.
Matt? Ping? Does the new patch 2.7.1 help? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
