Re: Urgent -- Problem in eCos installation

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

bug-fileutils is the wrong place for questions about eCos and patch. You 
should ask on the mailing lists for those software packages, whatever 
they are.

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  We are trying to install eCos. 
>  eCos-gcc version is 2.95
>
>  It is giving problem while giving following command in cygwin:
>
>  
> $ tr -d '\r' < /home/abc/ecos_installable/gnu_tools/ecos-gcc-2952.pat | patch -p0 /home/abc/ecos_installable/gnu_tools/gcc/gcc-2.95.2/contrib/egcs_updat
> e --touch
>
> patch: unrecognized option `--touch'
> patch: Try `patch --help' for more information.
[snip]

I suspect the patch in Cygwin is not recent enough to support the 
"--touch" option. I don't know which version does. patch on my RedHat 
Linux 8.0 system does not support "--touch":

  address@hidden rich]$ patch --touch
  patch: unrecognized option `--touch'
  patch: Try `patch --help' for more information.
  address@hidden rich]$ patch --version
  patch 2.5.4
  Copyright 1984-1988 Larry Wall
  Copyright 1989-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
  You may redistribute copies of this program
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

  written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert

Maybe it will work, if you remove the "--patch" option?

If not, perhaps you could use patchutils (search on 
<http://freshmeat.net/>) to extract a list of the files modified by the 
patch and touch them manually. I think there is a program in patchutils 
to do this. E.g.:

  tr -d '\r' < /home/abc/ecos_installable/gnu_tools/ecos-gcc-2952.pat \
    | patch -p0 /home/abc/.../egcs_update
  some-utility-from-patchutils /home/abc/.../egcs_update | xargs touch

I shortened the path to the patch for readability. Replace 
"some-utility-from-patchutils" as appropriate.

Hope that helps, bye, Rich =]

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