Re: Patch 2.5 and diffutils 2.7

[Paul Eggert]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:54:22 +0800
> 
> When I apply the ssl patch with the command patch, it gave me some error
> like the followings,
>      patching file `Makefile.tmpl'
>      Hunk #1 FAILED at 291.
>      1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to Makefile.tmpl.rej
>      patching file `configure'
>      Hunk #1 FAILED at 831.
>      Hunk #2 FAILED at 1101.
>      Hunk #3 FAILED at 1252.
>      Hunk #4 FAILED at 1351.
>      Hunk #5 FAILED at 1525.

It looks like 'patch' went seriously wrong.  Perhaps you needed to use
the -s option of 'patch'?

> from the above site again. I ran the script configure, but then got error
> when compile it with command 'make'.

Please try the latest diffutils test release; it should have a fix for
that bug.

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.7.7.tar.gz