After unpacking man-1.5m2.tar into man-1.5m2 directory, I tried to install the patch man-1.5m2-80cols.patch and m-1.5m2-manpath.patch. I get similar errors with expect spawn patch 5.39 and procps patch. The rest of the patches installed fine. These are the errors I get:


[root@david sources]# patch -p0 <man-1.5m2-80cols.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -Naur man-1.5l.orig/src/man.c man-1.5l/src/man.c
|--- man-1.5l.orig/src/man.c 2002-12-17 16:28:14.000000000 -0700
|+++ man-1.5l/src/man.c 2003-04-24 16:49:05.000000000 -0600
--------------------------
File to patch:



[root@david sources]# patch -p0 <man-1.5m2-manpath.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -Naur man-1.5k.orig/src/man.conf.in man-1.5k/src/man.conf.in
|--- man-1.5k.orig/src/man.conf.in 2002-07-17 13:08:40.000000000 -0600
|+++ man-1.5k/src/man.conf.in 2002-09-28 17:43:41.000000000 -0600
--------------------------
File to patch:


Please advise.

Thanks !

Have you thought that "Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option"?
I suggest you go back and actually read how to do it. You are using the wrong command, which is not written anywhere in either LFS-5.0 or LFS 5.1-pre1. Anything older than that uses a different version of man.

cp man-1.5m2-manpath.patch man-1.5k
cd man-1.5k
patch -p0 <man-1.5m2-manpath.patch
?

Thanks for the replies !

sorry... not sure how this got into this post..