Re: Errors when patching bash4.0

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Alex Reed wrote:

> Hello,
> I've downloaded and decompressed the bash-4.0 tarball, and downloaded
> bash40-001 through bash40-028 into a subdirectory bash-4.0/patches,
> using:
>
> bash $ tar xzvf bash-4.0.tar.gz
> bash $ cd bash-4.0
> bash-4.0 $ mkdir patches
> bash-4.0 $ # line breaks added for clarity to you, the reader
> for i in {001..028}; do
> echo "### OPERATING ON PATCH $i  ###"
> lynx <proxy> -dump -width=1000 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu.bash/bash-4.0-patches/bash40-$i

   Use -source, not -dump.


> > patches/bash40-$i;
> patch -p0 < patches/bash40-$i
> done
>
>
> Now I start to get some nasty output.
> ### OPERATING ON PATCH 001 ###
> patching file parse.y
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 2932 with fuzz 2.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 3276 with fuzz 1.
> Hunk #5 FAILED at 3442.
> 1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file parse.y.rej
> patching file patchlevel.h
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> At least one "hunk" fails on every patch file.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> -Alex

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