Re: [Ltib] ncurses patching fails

[Mark]

Hello Mike

Thanks for the reply. You're right I could 'chmod' the files locally, but I'd 
like to see if I can help to get this one get fixed permanently. I guess that 
I should 're-roll' the tarball and email it to Stuart.

Regards

Mark


On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 18:02:06 Mike Nelson wrote:
> Mark:
> 
> Yes, I had this problem.  It seems that the file "aclocal.m4" is set to
> read-only when it was put in the tarball.
> 
> In my installation it's located in the directory
> "~/ltib/rpm/BUILD/ncurses-5.3/".
> 
> All I did was go to the directory where the file is located and ran the
> command "chmod +w aclocal.m4", and then ran LTIB again.
> 
> Regards:
> 
> Mike Nelson, http://michaeltnelson.com
> mobile: 1-650-291-7343
> office: 1-650-257-7565
> 
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 07:30, Mark <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I've just updated my copy of LTIB via CVS and can no longer get ncurses
> > to build because the source cannot be patched:
> > 
> > 
> > + cd ncurses-5.3
> > + echo 'Patch #0 (ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch):'
> > Patch #0 (ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch):
> > + patch -p1 -s
> > File aclocal.m4 is read-only; refusing to patch
> > 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file aclocal.m4.rej
> > File configure is read-only; refusing to patch
> > 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file configure.rej
> > error: Bad exit status from /home/mark/ltib/tmp/rpm-tmp.13551 (%prep)
> > 
> > 
> > The problem appears to be that the permissions for the relevant source
> > files
> > are set to read-only and so the patches cannot be applied. I haven't had
> > (or
> > haven't noticed) any problems building ncurses in the past, and I can't
> > see that any of the sources have changed recently.
> > 
> > Anybody else had this problem?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
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