gnu patch commad broke

AfterBurn · 01-08-2005, 08:01 PM

hi all,
recently I upgraded from Kernel 2.4.26 to 2.6.10. I went to patch my kernel to add something to it and have discovered that patch doesn't work. No matter what kernel I use, and what version of patch I download, it just doesn't work.
it just sits there, even if I don't give it any options. ex:

Code:

steve@greenstar:~$ patch

and it sat there for 5 hours doing nothing. When I tell it to run in the background i get this:

Code:

steve@greenstar:~$ patch &
[1] 2981

[1]+  Stopped                 patch

any ideas? thanks in advance

linuxgeekery · 01-08-2005, 09:50 PM

You have to give the patch program arguments. Try looking at the manpage (man patch).

trashmatic · 01-08-2005, 10:43 PM

Yes, by default patch runs in interactive mode, so it's sitting there waiting for input. To patch from a patchfile, you need to use 'patch -i filename'.

AfterBurn · 01-09-2005, 07:38 PM

ah i found the problem....there was some other program that had taken up residence in my /usr/local/bin that was also called patch....and so it was going to that instead of my true patch command, thanks for the help anyways