Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Fwd: Contact from Texas A&M IAP

[Foster T. B. <fbr...@ad...>]

Hi Jacob,

On Oct 16, 2006, at 11:12a, Sean Parent wrote:

>> I installed Patch (& I think I got all the dependencies) from
>> GnuWin32.  But, Patch crashes, and I assume it has to do with the
>> line-ending issue.  Do I just need to fix line endings in the patch
>> file?  Or all of Boost?  What do you recommend?  Should I run =20
>> Patch on
>> a Linux box then copy it back over to Windows?

Welcome to the club!

 =46rom our experience the biggest issue with GnuWin32 has been that =20
the line endings in the patch file were such that Patch was not =20
happy. I can't recall if it caused Patch to crash or just to fail =20
patching. The source files did not need to have their line endings =20
converted -- patch seems to be line ending agnostic after the reading =20=

of the patch file. We use leconv, a small utility in adobe-source/=20
adobe/tools/, on the patch file to make it something patch is happy =20
with.

Let me know if you have any more issues.

Blessings,
Foster

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