Re: [bug-patch] major config problems with patch 2.6.1

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 11:01:30 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2010 17:09:21 Jim Reid wrote:
> > Hi. There are a number of problems/errors compiling and 2.6.1 on BSD- 
> > like platforms. It looks like patch has accidentally been turned into  
> > something that only works on Linux. Sigh.
> 
> Patch currently includes its own copy of gnulib.  Unfortunately, a few things 
> are broken; the most reasonable fix seems to be to switch to Automake and 
> integrate gnulib like in diffutils.  I didn't get to that yet; patches would 
> be welcome.

I've been working on the automake and gnulib conversion.  Things should mostly
be working; the remaining portability issues should be relatively easy to fix
now without having to jump through hoops.

You can try out in latest git version, or, once the upload mechanism to
alpha.gnu.org works again (it was stuck for the last hour at least), in
the following snapshot:

        ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.6.1.15-c86f.tar.gz

For the git version, you'll also need relatively recent versions of automake
and autoconf.

Andreas