Re: [Quilt-dev] Using quilt on OS X 10.4.x

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Seth Falcon wrote:
> Hello,

Hello Seth,

> I think that quilt might be just the thing for me to track patches
> against a project that I do not have commit rights to that uses svn.
>
> I'm running OS X 10.4 with a number of fink packages installed and
> haven't yet been able to get quilt working.
>
> Q1: Can anyone confirm that quilt will work on OS X 10.4

Yep, been using it for a few months now.

> My first attempt gave me a quilt that complained about bad date format.
> My date command was not gnu, but shouldn't the configure script have
> told me this?

It still needs help with --with-date=..., --with-find=... and others.

> After installing coreutils to get a better date command, I get no
> overt complaints, but when I pop a patch, I don't see any message
> about "Restoring .." any of the changed files.  The result is that if
> I create a patch, edit a file, refresh, and then pop, the modified
> file remains modified.

I use darwinports rather than fink, but that shouldn't make too much
difference.

> The example1.test fails I think for this reason.
>
> So... If I can provide more detailed info, please let me know.

You need this patch:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/quilt-dev/2005-09/msg00282.html

If you go through the thread that message appears in, you might
find the other patches I posted in that series to be useful for OSX
too...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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