Re: ncurses-5.2-20001202.patch.gz

[Albert Chin-A-Young]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:09:03PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>       + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H. 
>         Nanosecond", aka Eugene V.  Melaragno <address@hidden>.  This
>         patch includes
>         - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
>         - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
>           termcap and terminfo functions
>         - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
>           written in C.

Are you sure this patch applies cleanly? I get:

patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/B.htm
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3 with fuzz 1.
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/C.htm
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file doc/html/ada/funcs/C.htm.rej
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/D.htm
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3 with fuzz 1.
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/E.htm
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file doc/html/ada/funcs/E.htm.rej
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/F.htm
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/G.htm
Hunk #1 FAILED at 8.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file doc/html/ada/funcs/G.htm.rej
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/H.htm
Hunk #1 succeeded at 3 with fuzz 2.
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/I.htm
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/K.htm
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file doc/html/ada/funcs/K.htm.rej
patching file doc/html/ada/funcs/L.htm
...

Apparently, E.htm, G.htm, H.htm, K.htm, and some of the other files
with problems do not have a trailing newline at EOF in
ncurses-5.2.tar.gz which causes the patch to fail.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)