Hi Eric > I might as well start off answering my own question... > > By request from the rest of the team I've stopped using > cygwin along with moving to Vista. My Cygwin tools were > setup to automatically convert cr-lf files to lf internally, > so Unix files were loaded automatically. > > The patch files had Unix line-ends, not Windows line-ends, > so the non-cygwin patch.exe wasn't accepthing them. Unfortunately > it wasn't detecting that situation, just crashing. > > Workaround: manually convert the patch files, and rebuild. > > - Eric > I had analogue problems when I built the Vim Editor. Instead of converting the patches from unix to dos file format, I successfully applied the command line switch --binary when calling patch.exe.
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