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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem building -current (gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc)
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote:

>...
>         patch -b .orig < /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc/inc-hist.diff
>         patch: **** can't find file `.orig' : No such file or directory
>         *** Error code 2

> I was able to track this problem down to having ports/patch installed
> (/usr/local/bin/patch) and my build was picking up this version of patch
> vice the /usr/bin/patch one.... Perhaps "make buildworld" should specify
> a PATH variable?

It does, but since patch(1) is no longer a build-tool, an old version of
patch(1) in $PATH is found instead of a tool in $STRICTTMPPATH.

"-b .orig" is used to avoid pollution in the environment (I use
SIMPLE_BACKUP_PREFIX="~").  It might be better to kill most of the
environment.

Bruce



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