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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>
To: Marco Atzeri <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: R: patch can't find files by linux-stype path
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1777862342.20101002213745@mtu-net.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <821543.82660.qm@web25502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Greetings, Marco Atzeri!

>> >>
>> [C:\arc\games\online\WoW\AddOns\DebuffFilter-1.98]$patch
>> 
>> > C:\arc\games\online\WoW\AddOns\DebuffFilter-1.98
>> > is not a cygwin path, so what is your shell ?
>> 
>> http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en
>> 
>> > I will expect something like
>> >
>> /cygdrive/c/arc/games/online/WoW/AddOns/DebuffFilter-1.98
>> 
>> >> < ../.modd/DebuffFilter/TinyFontFix.patch
>> >> can't find file to patch at input line 3
>> >> Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip
>> option?
>> 
>> > patch --help is your friend,
>> > you need likely to specify 
>> > "-p number" 
>> 
>> Hope it's not a joke, just misunderstanding.
>> Files are exactly where they are supposed to be.
>> In ./DebuffFilter/* in this case.

> Thanks for the test case.
> You are right

>  /tmp/DebuffFilter-1.98
> $ patch -i TinyFontFix-linpath.patch
> can't find file to patch at input line 3

> but

>  /tmp/DebuffFilter-1.98
> $ patch -p0 -i TinyFontFix-linpath.patch
> patching file DebuffFilter/DebuffFilter.xml

> works. I don't know the reason.
> Sometimes patch tries to be too smart.

Aww... LOL :D Gonna take it for a habit... it's second application in two days
that require empty (theoretically meaningless) parameters to work properly.

Still I'd like to have Cygwin guys to take a look at the case and tell us if
it's Cygwin or patch issue.


--
WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 02.10.2010, <21:34>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-02 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <63338435.20101002014533@mtu-net.ru>
2010-10-02  4:36 ` Marco Atzeri
2010-10-02 17:40   ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2010-10-01 14:00 Andrey Repin
2010-10-01 14:31 ` R: " Marco Atzeri

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