Re: Problem experienced with ncurses-5.3-20030719-patch.sh (Cygwin)

[Frank Heckenbach]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Adrian Ford wrote:
> 
> > I can't vouch if this problem would apply to other
> > flavours of Unix, but I would recommend one of two
> > approaches:
> >
> > 1. Have the patch script check for the existence of
> > "patch" and exit with non-zero status immediately with
> > an appropriate error message before performing any
> > actions
> 
> or have the Cygwin packagers make the proper dependency checks (that's
> what packagers for other systems do).

While such a dependency check is certainly in order, I think it
wouldn't hurt for the patch script to check the exit status of patch
as well. Apart from a non-existent patch, other things could go
wrong when patching, and a non-zero status might indicate such
problems.

Frank

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