Re: [Ltib] ncurses patching fails

[Mike Nelson]

Mark:

Yes, I had this problem.  It seems that the file "aclocal.m4" is set to read-only when it was put in the tarball.

In my installation it's located in the directory "~/ltib/rpm/BUILD/ncurses-5.3/".  

All I did was go to the directory where the file is located and ran the command "chmod +w aclocal.m4", and then ran LTIB again.

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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 07:30, Mark <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello

I've just updated my copy of LTIB via CVS and can no longer get ncurses to
build because the source cannot be patched:


+ cd ncurses-5.3
+ echo 'Patch #0 (ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch):'
Patch #0 (ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch):
+ patch -p1 -s
File aclocal.m4 is read-only; refusing to patch
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file aclocal.m4.rej
File configure is read-only; refusing to patch
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file configure.rej
error: Bad exit status from /home/mark/ltib/tmp/rpm-tmp.13551 (%prep)


The problem appears to be that the permissions for the relevant source files
are set to read-only and so the patches cannot be applied. I haven't had (or
haven't noticed) any problems building ncurses in the past, and I can't see
that any of the sources have changed recently.

Anybody else had this problem?

Thanks

Mark

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