Andrew McIntyre wrote: > On 12/4/06, Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew McIntyre wrote: >> > On 12/4/06, Laura Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... >> >> Step 3 >> >> If your machine is a different architecture from the machine on which >> >> the patch was created, convert the file. >> >> >> >> Question - Aren't all patch files diff files? How will I know that the >> >> patch was created on a different machine? I use Windows, what should >> >> I look for to know that the patch was created in UNIX? Is the syntax: >> >> unix2dos patch.diff or unix2dos > patch.diff ? >> > >> > I think step 3 should be removed. All patch files will be unified >> > format diff files, as output by svn diff. Any patch program should be >> > able to compensate for line-ending differences, since presumably on >> > Windows you'll be using Cygwin's patch program. So, there should never >> > be a need to convert the line-endings in the file. >> > >> >> I get errors on Linux if I don't convert the file. You don't have this >> problem? > > Nope, I get: > > patching file path/to/file > (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.) > > with GNU patch v2.5.8.
ok, let's remove that step 3 then. (I'm on an older version of patch, will update). -jean
