Re: [Fink-devel] PatchScript: how to handle broken pipes

[Rohan L. <fi...@ro...>]

On 28 Jan 2005, at 12:26 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:

> I tried to compile a package that contained the fairly standard:
>
>   sed 's|@PREFIX@|%p|' < %a/%n.patch | patch -p1
>
> in PatchScript and due to a screwup on my part, that patchfile didn't
> exist. An error message was reported by sed, however, the build
> process then continued!

How's this for a simple alternative:

   /usr/bin/sed 's|@PREFIX@|%p|' <%a/%n.patch >%n.patch && 
/usr/bin/patch -p1 %n.patch

It leaves a %n.patch file in the build directory, but shouldn't matter.

-- 
Rohan Lloyd