Re: environment hosed during upgrade

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Teulings" <rael@...>
To: "MinGW Users List" <mingw-users@...>;
<dannysmith@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] environment hosed during upgrade
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> I can also approve that the patches make the compiler work again!
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> After compiler works again, my next step was to compile the wget
> mingwPORT. This however was not successful, because "patch" did not
> work. The call to patch to patch the source code failed with "permission
> denied".

When I try to run 'patch.exe' from my user account I get immediately
prompted to supply my admin password. Having done that, a separate console
opens and closes immediately. The patch does not get applied.

I can't really help with this - except that if you have perl, then there's a
Text::Patch module ( http://search.cpan.org/~cade/Text-Patch-1.2/ ) which
may be of some assistance. It supports only 'Unified' diff format, and looks
like it patches only text (not the actual file) - so you still have to read
the text from file, patch that text, then write the patched text back to
file .... rather kludgy, but it's probably better than applying complex
patches by hand.

Much better (obviously) if someone can fix 'patch.exe' :-)

Cheers,
Rob


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