Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 13:11:03 PST From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com> To: beta@XFree86.Org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, hua@chromatic.com Subject: Re: Large scale patching fails (most probably a FreeBSD bug) Message-ID: <199602292111.NAA06009@eng4.sequent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Feb 96 12:43:34 PST." <9602292043.AA04402@krypton.chromatic.com>
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In message <9602292043.AA04402@krypton.chromatic.com> , you wrote: > [patch] seemingly random failure. The software base has always been > XFree86 [...] > The bug manifests itself in the form of patch stopping > because it cannot find a specific file to patch. Usually this means that there is a new file in the patch that doesn't exist at all in your existing tree. If you want patch to do the right thing with these, you have to use the -p option (even if it's only -p0). What is your patch command line? --Ben
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