Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Unsucessful application of patches, without any error

[John A Meinel]

James Livingston wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 09:16 -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
>
> > Did the file in question have a space in the name?
>
>
> Nope, in this case the files were sources/rb-sourcelist.{h,c}
>
> <snip explanation of what "?M" means>
>
> > Anyway, tla before 1.2 something didn't handle spaces in filenames, so
> > it is possible that it just can't find the file.
>
>
> There are other patches by the same person (both before, and after) that
> modify the above two files and don't show this problem. My other guess
> was that the patch had gotten corrupted somewhere, but 1.2.1 and 1.3
> both do the right thing, which makes this less likely.
>
> It's not a complex patch either, the changes to the two files that don't
> work are a couple of lines added/changed.

Is the tree available that we can see it, and the bogus patch? I don't
have a lot of time, but I could at least look at the patch and see if
anything is suspicious.

Of course, natural statement is, since tla-1.2.1 and 1.3 work, use them. :)

Also, what version did he use to *generate* these patches?

And does the id for the patch have a quote (', ") in them? I believe
there was also a change to how quotes were handled in ids.

> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston

John
=:->


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