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RE: Where is patch?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:10:52 -0000
- Subject: RE: Where is patch?
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Ren? 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.
>
> I've found that GNU patch doesn't work but cygwin's patch works just
> fine.
And I imagine both of you have testcases available to prove your respective
claims..... ?
;) Oh look, a hippo!
cheers,
DaveK
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