Re: do we need patch-native ?

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 10/13/2010 08:12 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had to do a build on OpenSuse 11.3 today, and it failed building
> quilt-native (0.46-r2)
>
> Root cause is that quilt configure tries to find whether patch is
> installed and has a version>  2.4
> It does so by calling patch --version and extract the version string from it.
>
> The patch from 11.3 identifies itself as:
> GNU patch 2.6.1.81-5b68
> However the quilt configure script expected to find output like:
> patch 2.6 (which is what I get on my ubuntu 10.4 version).
>
> I see several possible options to fix this:
> - make a package patch-native, so we can use our own patch
> - patch quilt so its configure can deal with both patch version strings
>
> Problem with the latter is that I have no idea how many other recipes
> will have a similar test (and definitely they are not all triggered by
> the images I regularly build.
> Therefore I think I have a preference to introduce patch-native, but I
> would like to hear how you guys&  gals think about this, and whether
> you see other options.

Sounds like quilt's configure script is broken.  Such behaviour
should not be catered to - it should be fixed.

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