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

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Mike Castle wrote:

> 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?

probably with 'patch'.  versions between 2.1 and 2.5 were too buggy to
bother using; this is the sort of thing that broke.  2.1 was smarter than
the older versions of patch in this regard, and 2.2-2.4 suffered from
someone's attempts to improve it further.  Perhaps it's a recurrence.

(I attempted to refresh my memory on this issue recently, but the
changelog doesn't make it apparent what the problems were ;-)

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