is there something totally screwed with "patch"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   i couldn't find anything on bugzilla about this, so here goes.
> after an hour of trying to figure out why a large compile of mine
> wasn't working, i've narrowed it down to the "patch" command.
> quite simply, "patch" doesn't.
> 
>   i've applied a short patch file against a directory of glibc
> source, the command assures me that it's applying the patch, it
> correctly tells me where the hunks were applied, and so on.  and
> after it's all over ... no change to the file.
> 
>   as a test, i replaced my standard
> 
>   $ patch ... < patchfile
> 
> with
> 
>   $ patch ... --input=patchfile
> 
> which should be equivalent, and *now* it tells me that the 
> patch file is not found!  exactly the same file that allegedly
> worked when i used stdin.


  oh, never mind ... i really have to read the man page way more
carefully.  i hate days like this.

rday