cygwin and applying patches

[Joel Sherrill]

Rosimildo da Silva wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks.  This means we can't use the %patch rule in RPM on cygwin 
which also means that Cygwin can't use the same specs as Linux
and Solaris.  Thus we will have to stoop to something like this:

%ifos cygwin
echo Using Cygwin specific patch rule
%else
%patch...
%endif


I wonder how RPM worked at all with my old B20 
Cygwin installation. :(

> Rosimildo.

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