Rafael Lopez wrote:
> At LFS's Chapter 6.16. Coreutils-6.9 when trying to apply
> coreutils-6.9-uname-1.patch a file name for a "File to patch" is asked
> for.
> What would said file name be?
>
> Here is copy-paste of what I get on the screen:
>
> root:/sources# ls
> coreutils-6.9 coreutils-6.9-suppress_uptime_kill_su-1.patch
> coreutils-6.9-i18n-1.patch coreutils-6.9-uname-1.patch
> root:/sources# cd coreutils-6.9
> root:/sources/coreutils-6.9# ls -l
> total 184
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80541 Jan 14 2007 ABOUT-NLS
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17987 Mar 18 2007 COPYING
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2804 Mar 18 2007 Makefile.am
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1655 Mar 18 2007 Makefile.cfg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36181 Mar 22 2007 Makefile.in
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8867 Mar 22 2007 configure.ac
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 2 10:38 doc
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 16384 Mar 22 2007 lib
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 2007 man
> root:/sources/coreutils-6.9# patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-6.9-uname-1.patch
> can't find file to patch at input line 18
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
That coreutils-6.9 dir is missing a few things...among others, a
"configure" script and a "src" dir (which is where the patch is
looking). Looks like either you have an incomplete tarball, or there was
some kind of problem unpacking it.
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