On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 02:23:09PM +0100, Andres Mendez wrote:
> > I've just tried to use that patch (I extracted it from the mail, just to
> > be sure) over a clean source and it applied perfectly! Where does it
> > fail you?
> >
> > ------------------
> > root@avalon (/tmp/tests/qmail-1.03) # patch -p1 <
> ../qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch
> > patching file `qmail-smtpd.c'
> > root@avalon (/tmp/tests/qmail-1.03) #
> > ------------------
>
> Haven't you seen that the file ends with "{". I don't know a lot about file
> patching but a source code can't finish opening something "{".
File patching can end with whatever it wants, as it is not complete source
code. The line that ends with '{' is followed in the C source file by more
lines.
> I've done the same as you, and this is what happens:
Me too:
(pcg@micah) ~> lynx -source http://pobox.com/~djb/software/qmail-1.03.tar.gz >
qmail-1.03.tar.gz
(pcg@micah) ~> tar -xzf qmail-1.03.tar.gz
(pcg@micah) ~> cd qmail-1.03
/home/pcg/qmail-1.03
(pcg@micah) ~/qmail-1.03> patch -p1 < ../qmail-1.03-maxrcpt.patch
patching file `qmail-smtpd.c'
(pcg@micah) ~/qmail-1.03>
What other patches have you applied to your source?
/pg
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Peter Green
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