On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Xin LI delphij@delphij.net wrote:
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Brett @Google wrote:
Hello,
Just wondering if anybody knows why solaris patch refuses to process the bdb 4.7 patch files, where the patch command on linux works perfectly.
Ie: on solaris :
patch -p0 <patch.4.7.25.1 Looks like a context diff to me... Hunk #1 failed at line 187. Hunk #3 failed at line 296. 2 out of 4 hunks failed: saving rejects to sequence/sequence.c.rej done
Works fine on a linux machine ?
We use --ignore-whitespace on FreeBSD ports (databases/db47) which solved this problem. Another solution would be to convert the patch to an Unix file :)
Yes this was the problem, ran the patch through dos2unix, and the patch applied ok.
Firefox (in Windows) transparently changed to native line encoding when it was being saved.
I suspect that some versions of Linux "patch" with automatically convert linefeeds.
Cheers Brett