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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 :)