On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:07:23 +0100, you wrote:
>Well, `diff -c' here produces output like
>
>ben@scientia:~/tmp$ diff -c foo bar
>*** foo Thu Jun 3 20:03:34 1999
>--- bar Thu Jun 3 20:03:37 1999
>***************
>*** 1 ****
>! foo
>--- 1 ----
>! bar
>
>but the Exim diffs only have
>
>*** exim-3.01/Makefile Wed May 19 09:23:45 1999
>***************
>*** 7,13 ****
>
>for each file, without the "--- " line as well, which could be what the
>complaint is. I've got patch 2.1 here so I can't verify that though,
>it's just a guess. Perhaps Marc could test it for you.
|mh@torres:/mnt/main6/home/mh > perl -ne 'print; print if s/^\*\*\* exim/--- exim/' < exim-patch-3.01-3.02 | patch -p0
|patching file `exim-3.01/Makefile'
|patching file `exim-3.01/README.UPDATING'
|patching file `exim-3.01/OS/Makefile-Base'
|patching file `exim-3.01/OS/Makefile-HP-UX'
|patching file `exim-3.01/OS/Makefile-HP-UX-9'
|patching file `exim-3.01/OS/Makefile-SunOS4'
|patching file `exim-3.01/doc/ChangeLog'
|patching file `exim-3.01/doc/spec.txt'
|patching file `exim-3.01/scripts/arch-type'
|patching file `exim-3.01/scripts/os-type'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/EDITME'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/accept.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/daemon.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/deliver.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/direct.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/dns.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/exim.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/expand.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/functions.h'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/globals.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/globals.h'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/host.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/macros.h'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/match.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/queue.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/readconf.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/route.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/smtp_in.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/transport.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/verify.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/version.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/directors/smartuser.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/routers/iplookup.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/routers/lookuphost.c'
|patching file `exim-3.01/src/transports/smtp.c'
|mh@torres:/mnt/main6/home/mh > echo $?
|0
|mh@torres:/mnt/main6/home/mh >
Looks like this is the cause of these funky errors. Thanks to Ben for
pointing out which changes to apply to the patch file. Unfortunately,
patch doesn't happen to particularly enjoy working for me.
Greetings
Marc
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