* (minor) Configure should(?) check for 'patch'..
@ 2002-07-04 5:32 D. Goel
2002-07-05 10:48 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: D. Goel @ 2002-07-04 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
Greetings
not very sure if this is a bug, but erring on the side of safety by
reporting :) --->
Was just building from CVS on a new debian box, that did not know the
patch command. It configured just fine... but 'make bootstrap'
broke-->
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| .....
| Loading ange-ftp (source)...
| Loading ediff-help.el (source)...
| Loading ediff-mult.el (source)...
| Loading ediff-wind.el (source)...
| Loading ediff-diff.el (source)...
| Loading ediff-merg.el (source)...
| Loading ediff.el (source)...
| Loading dired (source)...
| Loading info (source)...
| Loading ediff-ptch.el (source)...
| Searching for program: no such file or directory, patch
| make[1]: *** [autoloads] Error 255
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/deego/pub/pub/src/emacs/emacs/lisp'
| make: *** [bootstrap-lisp] Error 2
`----
(Shouldn't configure have detected this absence of patch? )
====================================================
bug-headers:
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Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.
In GNU Emacs 21.1.3 (alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2001-10-30 on shorty.csc.umd.edu
configured using `configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu --infodir=/usr/local/gnu/info/emacs-21.1 --with-kerberos --with-x --with-x-toolkit=yes --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif --with-png'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: nil
locale-coding-system: nil
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
Recent input:
d d d ESC O A ESC O A RET d = d d d d d d d d d d d
d ESC O A d d d ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC
O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A
ESC O A RET y RET RET d RET = d d d d q s ESC < ESC
x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET
Recent messages:
Saving /homes/deego/.newsrc...
Wrote /homes/deego/.newsrc
Saving /homes/deego/.newsrc...done
Saving /homes/deego/.newsrc.eld...
Saving file /homes/deego/.newsrc.eld...
Wrote /homes/deego/.newsrc.eld
Saving /homes/deego/.newsrc.eld...done
idledo imminent--> (idledo-deepak-setup)
Mark set
Loading emacsbug...done
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* Re: (minor) Configure should(?) check for 'patch'..
2002-07-04 5:32 (minor) Configure should(?) check for 'patch' D. Goel
@ 2002-07-05 10:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-06 7:18 ` D. Goel
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-07-05 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs, deego
Does this fix it?
*** ediff-ptch.el.~1.17.~ Thu Mar 21 04:09:01 2002
--- ediff-ptch.el Fri Jul 5 03:33:51 2002
***************
*** 85,96 ****
:group 'ediff-ptch)
(defun ediff-test-patch-utility ()
! (cond ((zerop (call-process ediff-patch-program nil nil nil "-z." "-b"))
! ;; GNU `patch' v. >= 2.2
! 'gnu)
! ((zerop (call-process ediff-patch-program nil nil nil "-b"))
! 'posix)
! (t 'traditional)))
(defcustom ediff-backup-specs
(let ((type (ediff-test-patch-utility)))
--- 85,98 ----
:group 'ediff-ptch)
(defun ediff-test-patch-utility ()
! (condition-case nil
! (cond ((zerop (call-process ediff-patch-program nil nil nil "-z." "-b"))
! ;; GNU `patch' v. >= 2.2
! 'gnu)
! ((zerop (call-process ediff-patch-program nil nil nil "-b"))
! 'posix)
! (t 'traditional))
! (file-error nil)))
(defcustom ediff-backup-specs
(let ((type (ediff-test-patch-utility)))
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