does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools?

[Heribert Dahms]

Hi Armin,

if you edit your makefile anyway you can as well use Corinna's original
suggestion:

	patch -b -p2 -i ../../db-3.2.9.patch

or I'd use the unixy way:

	patch -b -p2 < ../../db-3.2.9.patch

or for best portability conditionally set a variable to cat or type:

	$CAT patch-file-name | patch -b -p2


Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Armin Theissen [SMTP:Armin.Theissen@Sun.COM]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:42
> To:	cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject:	Re: does patch.exe work different than other unx patch
> tools?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> thanks for all your help on that issue. We got the patch working 
> now. 
> 
> First, Corrina's suggestion of forgetting the 'type' works, but 
> the patch is part of a makefile which should work for unix platforms 
> as well (openoffice.org) and the type command is needed there for 
> reasons I don't know right now ( = I don't build the unix stuff). 
> Then, it makes no difference whether I use the newest latest cygwin 
> or the old one (which we need to compile openoffice.org properly 
> from the 4nt shell using cygwin tools). 
> Last but not least, the line-ends. The solution to make the patch 
> working is
>  
> type patch-file-name | tr -d "\015"| patch -b -p2
> 
> armin
> 
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]


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