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Patching fails in LFS 6.5

I'm in step 5.26. Applying the patch to Patch (>__>) fails with this message:

Code:

$ patch -Np1 -i ../patch-2.5.9-fixes-1.patch

patching file pch.c

Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.

Hunk #2 succeeded at 355 (offset -11 lines).

Hunk #3 succeeded at 392 (offset -23 lines).

1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file pch.c.rej

$ cat pch.c.rej

***************

*** 1,6 ****

  /* reading patches */

  

- /* $Id: pch.c,v 1.44 2003/05/20 14:03:17 eggert Exp $ */

  

  /* Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall

  

--- 1,6 ----

  /* reading patches */

  

+ /* $Id: pch.c,v 1.45 2003/07/02 22:19:21 eggert Exp $ */

  

  /* Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988 Larry Wall

Everything until now worked fine. Any idea what could be the problem?

BTW, an unrelated question. I recently found out about DIY Linux. Apparently, the difference with LFS is that the former is more advanced so that you will get a more fleshed out Linux, with package management and stuff. Is that so?

Hi,

That should work (just tried it again):

Code:

~/Tmp> tar zxf patch-2.5.9.tar.gz

~/Tmp> cd patch-2.5.9/

~/Tmp/patch-2.5.9> patch -Np1 -i ../patch-2.5.9-fixes-1.patch

patching file pch.c

~/Tmp>

Are you sure that:

1) The patch itself is not corrupt?
2) You used the patch.2.5.9 tarball together with the patch-2.5.9-fixes-1.patch? (version being the important part)

Hope this helps.

PS: I don't have any experience with DIY Linux.

Oh, right, thanks. I had downloaded 2.5.4 instead of 2.5.9, since the LFS mirror I was using had that version. I'll download it from the GNU site, should work.