[Xymon] 4.3.26 build fail

Richard Hamilton rlhamil2 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 17:16:15 CET 2016


Oops, my server is on Solaris 11 , not on a Mac; I would have been using
GNU patch 2.7.5 probably.  But I might have gotten the patch a different
way (or even just copy/pasted it) when I got it.


On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Richard Hamilton <rlhamil2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The attachment.bin from that link is 115 lines, but does not have a
> newline at the end of the 115th line.  There have been a lot of versions of
> "patch" commands, and not all of them may be equally tolerant.
>
> You could try getting a fresh copy of attachment.bin, and then modifying
> it by adding the newline
> echo >>attachment.bin
>
> and then using that.
>
> I don't recall having any problems, but I'm working on a Mac, which may
> have a different version of "patch" than what you're using.
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Daubenspeck <matt at oddprocess.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:28:40AM -0800, John Thurston wrote:
>> > >patching file xymonnet/contest.c
>> > >patching file configure.server
>> > >patching file build/ssl.sh
>> > >patching file build/test-ssl3.c
>> > >patching file build/Makefile.test-ssl3
>> > >patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
>> > >patch: **** malformed patch at line 114:
>> > >
>> > >Did I patch it wrong?
>> >
>> > I suspect you have a truncated patch file.
>> > The attached text is 115 lines long.
>>
>> I must be doing something wrong then. I downloaded the patch directly
>> from the user list archives, and get the same error. Line 115 has
>> nothing but a + and a blank line. I tried the patch attachment via mutt,
>> and downloading it via here:
>>
>> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2016-March/043228.html
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