cygwin and applying patches

[Rosimildo da Silva]

From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>
To: <rtems-users at OARcorp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: cygwin and applying patches


> 
> What's the trick? :)
> 
> 
> Does it work at all?  I can't seem to make it work.  The patch
> is rejected with the .orig file being OK but the newly written
> file has DOS-style CR/LF's and the reject has CR/LF's.
> 
> I have clobbered the cygwin installation and am using a relatively 
> recent (downloaded 8/20) download of Net Cygwin.  
> 
> Sugestions appreciated.
> 

  tr -d '\r' < your_patch_here.patch | patch -p1

The patch utility under Cygwin 1.1.x is broken big time. It cores dump
on many patches. Use the "tr" utility with any patch.

Rosimildo.