Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt presentation

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday 01 July 2005 17:45, jerome lacoste wrote:
> On 7/1/05, Jean Delvare <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Jerome,
> >
> > > The presentation is mostly done. I still have to check if quilt runs
> > > in Cygwin (if anyone could lend me a hand with that I will appreciate.
> > > I am not sure I have a Windows machine running near by).
> >
> > Unfortunately, quilt doesn't run in Cygwin. I tried, and if I remember
> > correctly, backup-files failed to compile because it wanted a library
> > named FTW which Cygwin doesn't have.
>
> according to the BUGS file, backup-files is only used because of a bug
> in old patch, which may have been fixed in the version used in cygwin.

Not quite; it's used in the pop command at least. The BUGS file is out of 
date; it should probably be removed.

> In theory, quilt could be build against normal patch when patch is
> recent enough, right?

The last time that I checked, upstream patch still had the bug. The SUSE 
package has a patch that fixes the bug, but the upstream maintainer didn't 
take it.

-- Andreas.