"make test" fails some of the tests at patch level 39 and patch level
48. I'll investigate a bit more as I've only tried it on one of my Linux
systems and post details if I can't work out what the problem is.
Dan
So I tried building it on Fedora 9 and it built with no problems (up to
and in
> I haven't posted them here yet, but they are available. I didn't
use them
because you said you had a problem with 37.
Chet
Oh, I see. Well, it seems to be OK now, at least in terms of applying
the patches to the code using Stephane's instructions - I understand
what's going on there now.
> What's the significance of compiling after patch 33? I had a quick
> glance at patches 33 and 34 and nothing really suggested that step. Is
> there something obvious in the patch files that makes it clear that you
> need to rebuild the intermediate patch level?
I end up releasing patches in w
In general, I don't use those systems, but I ran something similar to
for f in $(seq -w 01 33); do patch -p0 < /path/to/patches/bash32-0$f; done
on RHE3 without errors, compiled that version, ran
for f in $(seq -w 34 39); do patch -p0 < /path/to/patches/bash32-0$f; done
and ran `make' again.
Dan wrote:
> I'm a bit of newbie when it comes to patching Linux software, and I have
> been having trouble applying the patches for Bash for ages.
>
> I noticed a long time ago that the destination directory names in the
> patch files vary between the patches, so having read the help for the
> p
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
[...]
Well, I have this exact same version of the patch progr
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +, Dan wrote:
[...]
> Questions:
> 1) Does my guide (see below) for applying the patches make sense? I
> couldn't see any other way to make this work without creating the symbolic
> links and using the -p0 option as recommended by Chet. The steps in the
> g
