Thank you very much for the fast reply.
Stephane Chazelas wrote:
I'm not sure why you need to do all that. Here, I do:
[...]
Maybe you've got too old a version of the "patch" utility.
Here, patch --version gives me:
patch 2.5.9
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Well, I have this exact same version of the patch program. I did all
that business with the symbolic links because the patch program was
complaining that it couldn't find the destination file to which to apply
the patches when using -p0.
Yes, it looks like there has been a problem while applying
bash32-037
Ah, I see.
I shall give your suggested procedure a try. Many thanks.