Re: [Quilt-dev] missing Subject: in quilt mail

[Randy Dunlap]

On 07/25/2018 03:58 PM, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> 2018-07-25 20:22 GMT+02:00 Randy Dunlap <address@hidden>:
>> On 07/25/2018 10:56 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> [quilt v0.65]
>>>
>>> I don't usually use quilt mail to send patches, but I was just trying
>>> to do that and keep having this error.
>>>
>>> It happens whether I use -M intro_file_name or just let quilt invoke
>>> $EDITOR to generate an intro file:
>>>
>>> Introduction has no subject header (saved as /tmp/quilt.rXd573)
>>>
>>> and that file looks like this:
>>> Message-Id: <address@hidden>
>>> User-Agent: quilt/0.65
>>> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:01:18 -0700
>>> From: address@hidden
>>> To: address@hidden
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>> Bcc:
>>> Subject-Prefix: [PATCH @num@/@address@hidden
>>> Subject: arc: some allmodconfig fixup patches
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here are a few patches that fix build errors or warnings that
>>> I encountered while doing arc "allmodconfig" builds.
>>>
>>> These patches do not fix all of the build issues.
>>>
>>>
>>>  arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h            |    2 ++
>>>  arch/arc/mm/cache.c                     |   11 ++++++-----
>>>  arch/arc/plat-eznps/include/plat/ctop.h |    1 +
>>>  arch/arc/plat-eznps/mtm.c               |    6 ++++--
>>>  4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>> <EOF>
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> User error (of course).  Missing "series" file.
>>
>> Now that I have a series file, I get this error:
>> Unable to extract a subject header from 001-arc-delay-use-intll64h.patch
>>
>> where the first line in that file is:
>> Subject: arc: fix some build issues in delay.h
>>
>> Is there a trick to conjuring quilt into accepting a Subject: line?
> 
> It should accept that by default. Is 001-arc-delay-use-intll64h.patch
> located in the patches/ directory, where quilt expects all the patches
> to be located by default?

Nope, the *.patch files and series file are all located in a temp
directory because I want to modify the patches while I am doing testing.  :)

I'll try with the patches/ directory.

Thanks.

> The following works for me:
> 
> $ cat patches/series
> foo.patch
> $ cat patches/foo.patch
> Subject: This is foo

-- 
~Randy