> When doing cvs updates I get a lot of errors of the form
>
> patch: Invalid options.
> patch: Usage: patch [-blNR] [-c|-e|-n] [-d dir] [-D
> define] [-i patchfile]\
> [-o outfile] [-p num] [-r rejectfile] [file]
> cvs update: could not patch ParseIface.y; will refetch
>
> Should I ignore these or look for a different patch?
This is the one we use:
cam-02-unx:~/Feb24/fpt/ghc$ patch -v
patch 2.5
Copyright 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
It has never given me any problems. I think it is part of the
GNU textutils package. Perhaps you are using a Solaris implementation
instead?
J
