patch-2.00.12u8 has problems applying diffs for gcc-2.3.1

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From: Bruce Evans
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 16:07

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1. Recent versions of patch are broken for read-only files with names of
maximal length.  For read-only files, patch tries various RCS filenames
to see if the file should be extracted from RCS.  When the file name
has maximal length and the system truncates file names, patch thinks that
the RCS file exists although it has only found the original file.  Then
patch runs RCS.  RCS of course fails, and patch exits with a fatal error
(it shouldn't be fatal).  Old versions of patch apparently avoided this
problem by not looking in the current directory for RCS files.

2. Somehow the patch for texinfo.tex had misordered hunks.  This used to
be a nonfatal error, as it should be.  It is now fatal.

3. patch exited after failing to create objc/Makefile.  It worked OK
when I created the subdirectory objc first.  I could not reproduce the
problem in smaller examples.  patch-2.00.12u worked OK.
-- 
Bruce Evans  (bde@runx.oz.au)

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