On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i couldn't find anything on bugzilla about this, so here goes. > after an hour of trying to figure out why a large compile of mine > wasn't working, i've narrowed it down to the "patch" command. > quite simply, "patch" doesn't. > > i've applied a short patch file against a directory of glibc > source, the command assures me that it's applying the patch, it > correctly tells me where the hunks were applied, and so on. and > after it's all over ... no change to the file. > > as a test, i replaced my standard > > $ patch ... < patchfile > > with > > $ patch ... --input=patchfile > > which should be equivalent, and *now* it tells me that the > patch file is not found! exactly the same file that allegedly > worked when i used stdin. oh, never mind ... i really have to read the man page way more carefully. i hate days like this. rday
