Re: [Ltib] ncurses patching fails

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Mark,

Nothing has changed with that package in ages.  I suspect the problem is
to do with your host distribution and its version of patch.  I just
tried on a Dreamlinux 3.5 (Debian Lenny vintage) and I see:

+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd ncurses-5.3
+ echo 'Patch #0 (ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch):'
Patch #0 (ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch):
+ patch -p1 -s
+ echo 'Patch #1 (ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch):'
Patch #1 (ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch):
+ patch -p1 -s
+ echo 'Patch #2 (ncurses-5.3-wint_t.patch):'
Patch #2 (ncurses-5.3-wint_t.patch):
+ patch -p1 -s
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e
/data/seh/Src/ltib_bsps/savannah_ltib/tmp/rpm-tmp.52436
+ umask 022

Looking at aclocal.m4 I see:
-r--r--r-- 1 seh seh 82995 2010-08-04 18:50 aclocal.m4

and checking the file I can see it got patched.

Can you check your version of patch to confirm this, mine is:

$ patch --version
patch --versionpatch 2.5.9
[snip]

I think the new one is being too helpful.  I think the best think
overall is to change the spec file and make the offending file writeable.

Could you try this on your machine (rm -rf rpm/BUILD/ncurses* first):

edit: dist/lfs-5.1/ncurses/ncurses.spec

and apply this patch:


Index: dist/lfs-5.1/ncurses/ncurses.spec
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/ltib/ltib/dist/lfs-5.1/ncurses/ncurses.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 ncurses.spec
--- dist/lfs-5.1/ncurses/ncurses.spec   10 Jul 2009 09:21:05 -0000      1.2
+++ dist/lfs-5.1/ncurses/ncurses.spec   4 Aug 2010 17:58:02 -0000
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@

 %Prep
 %setup
+# make aclocal.m4 writable for later versions of patch
+chmod +w aclocal.m4
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1

Then run:

$ ./ltib -p ncurses

If that fixes it, I'll check in the update.

Regards, Stuart



Mark 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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