Re: [bug-patch] GNU patch 2.6.1 fails to build on IRIX

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

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On Friday 15 January 2010 14:26:41 Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding bug-patch]
> 
> According to Stuart Shelton on 1/14/2010 9:47 AM:
> > On IRIX (and, indeed, any platform without strnlen() or strndup()),
> 
> Hmm.  'gnulib-tool --with-tests --create-testdir --dir=dir xstrndup', then
> configuring that directory on mingw, did not fail.  So I'm not reproducing
> the failure.

Yes, it's because of the way how patch uses gnulib -- it still has a static 
copy.  I was trying to get it to build on most systems before ripping out the 
static copy, switching to automake, using gnulib as intended, etc.  Apparently 
I got several things wrong when trying that.

Any help towards fixing this up properly would be highly appreciated!

> Is GNU patch properly using the string.in.h replacement header?

No, I was trying to get things running without pulling in another dozen files 
from gnulib.


Thanks,
Andreas