cvs update - wrong version of patch

Kevin P. Fleming kfleming at access-laserpress.com
Tue May 12 18:15:00 GMT 1998


You can also get a precompiled Solaris package for patch at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/solaris...

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> janet,
> 
> suddenly realised what you were on about, here :-)  i presume that cvs is
> calling the "patch" command. and you have a version of patch that is
> stuffed.
> 
> obtain the source for the gnu version of patch from sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
> in the gnu directory, by either using ftp, nfs or smb.  i had to do this
> eighteen months ago as NextStep does not have a proper diff _or_ patch
> command...
> 
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Janet Dickson wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >       I have a minor problem in getting updates via cvs. My patch command
> > (/usr/bin on Solaris 2.5.1) gives the message 'patch: Invalid option'.
> > What should I be using ?
> >
> >       Janet
> >
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