Re: Bug with Cygwin's 'quilt' is actually in 'patch'

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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

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