On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Pedro Alves wrote: > (Here is the original message I tried to send earlier, sorry for the mess.) > > Hi guys, > > While looking at why 'quilt annotate' is broken in Cygwin, I found > something fishy on 'patch' in ed mode. Looks like reading the patch > from stdin is broken. Reading the patch from a file with -i works > ok. Here is how to reproduce: > > $ touch a.txt > > $ cat << EOF > b.txt > > > > a new line > > > EOF > > > > $ diff -e a.txt b.txt > ab.diff > > $ cat ab.diff > 0a > a new line > . > > $ patch -e a.txt < ab.diff > > $ /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/pt104167/LOCALS~1/Temp/poL0ERTu: No such file > or directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Looks like your $TMP is set to something Cygwin doesn't like... Try setting it to, say, /tmp, and see if that makes patch -e happier... > [snip] > That 'No such file' error message comes from ed, or so it seems. > It looks like something is going wrong with the pipe to ed > (patch/pch.c:do_ed_script), but I can't see what. The filename passed > to it is correct, but somehow, when the pipe is fflushed ed barks. > If I put a _cexit before the pipe is flushed, ed doesn't complain. > I also tested it on kubuntu 6.06, and on Solaris 10 with gnu patch, > gnu diff and Sun ed, and it worked correctly, so it does look > like a Cygwin specific problem. You could also try playing with the "binmode" setting in the Cygwin environment variable, which controls line endings in pipes. > (end original message) > > As Corinna found out, not specifying the file to patch, but doing > it interactively works ok. That should make it easier to debug. > > $ patch -e < ab.diff > can't find file to patch at input line 1 > Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? > File to patch: a.txt > $ cat a.txt > a new line > $ > > $ patch -e a.txt < ab.diff > /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/DEFINI~1/Temp/poh0o0Rq: No such file or > directory Hmm, you also forgot to mention the directory where a.txt resides... Try first doing this on a binary mount in some directory under Cygwin root (e.g., /tmp). If that works, look into directories and environment variable settings. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/