Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Josh,

 

I know you said “unbundled”, but how about the Cygwin version?

 

I just downloaded base-3.14.12.1 and then applied the cygwin-path.patch using the latest Cygwin version of patch and it worked fine.

 

rivers@Rivers-Mobile /cygdrive/c/EPICS/base-3.14.12.1

# patch -p0 < cygwin-path.patch

patching file src/tools/EPICS/Path.pm

 

Mark

 

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Stein

Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 8:50 AM

To: [email protected]

Subject: 'Patch' tool for windows

 

Has anyone found an unbundled Patch tool which works properly for Windows?

 

I've tried the gwin32 version of patch (which shows as "patch 2.5.9" when 'patch -v' is executed), invoking it as:

 

patch -p0 < file.patch

 

this fails with this rather cryptic message:

"Hunk #1 FAILED at 266"

and then dies

 

Searching on the internet lead me down the path of unix vs. windows line termination woes, but attempts at conversion did not yield a patch file that worked.

 

Any ideas? It would be wonderful to be able to apply the patches as shown in the "known problems" section of base.

 

--J