Re: patch-2.5.[67] causes latest ncurses rollup patch to fail

[Mike Castle]

In article <address@hidden>,
Paul Eggert  <address@hidden> wrote:
>Yes, that's correct.  Thanks for the bug report.  The bug should
>be fixed in patch 2.5.8, which you can get from:
>
>ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.5.8.tar.gz

That does fix the segfault issue.

However, I'm confused about the warning issued, using the same test case:

address@hidden:55am]src/patch/patch-2.5.8-build(566) ./patch -p1 < 
patch.install  
Prereq: with multiple words at line 15 of patch
patching file INSTALL


When running the full ncurses patch process, it gets quite noisy.

Is that a problem with the patch itself, or still a bug in the patch
program?

mrc
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