Re: Problem experienced with ncurses-5.3-20030719-patch.sh (Cygwin)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Adrian Ford wrote:

> I can't vouch if this problem would apply to other
> flavours of Unix, but I would recommend one of two
> approaches:
>
> 1. Have the patch script check for the existence of
> "patch" and exit with non-zero status immediately with
> an appropriate error message before performing any
> actions

or have the Cygwin packagers make the proper dependency checks (that's
what packagers for other systems do).

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