From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Where is patch?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:28:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A08086.3010405@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dnpsv8$o2r$1@sea.gmane.org>
René Berber wrote:
>Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>
>
>>I am having trouble with patch. My Cygwin patch (and my GnuWin32 patch)
>>says it is version 2.5.9. But where is the sources for this? I looked at
>>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch and they only have version 2.5.4. How can
>>that be?
>>
>>
>
>The latest GNU patch version compiles out of the box and it works better than
>the one distributed with Cygwin. By "works better" I mean that Cygwin's patch
>sometimes fail when GNU patch works perfect.
>
>
That is interesting. However my problem is with line endings. It turned
out that the file to patch has CR-LF line endings (which is ok) and the
patch file had LF line endings. This surprised me, I did not notice it
first. In my opinion it should not have had that. It came from
Thunderbird on MS Windows and I just pasted into a new file in Emacs.
Then Emacs made the decision to save the file with LF line endings.
There are two things I would like here:
*** For patch: I would like it to discover that the line ending type of
the patch file and the file to patch differ. I would then like patch to
convert the line endings in the patch read from the patch file to that
kind used in the file to patch. (It should not change the patch file of
course.) That would be enough to solve my problem. However I would like
such functionality to go into the main patch distribution if possible.
That would save work I hope.
*** For Emacs: I would like the default on MS Windows to be CR-LF line
endings. That would in my opinion be less surpricing for an MS Windows user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <43A064AD.4050604@student.lu.se>
[not found] ` <20051214192858.GM2399@calimero.vinschen.de>
[not found] ` <43A07425.70205@student.lu.se>
2005-12-14 20:04 ` Where is patch? - problems with patch.exe on w32 Lennart Borgman
2005-12-15 4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 8:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-15 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 20:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-16 7:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <dnpsv8$o2r$1@sea.gmane.org>
2005-12-14 20:28 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-12-15 4:29 ` Where is patch? Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-14 20:47 Richard Campbell
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