Subject: Re: i18n megapatch to AW
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 12:46:14 CDT
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, sam th wrote:
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> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Thomas Briggs wrote:
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> > > I've fogrot to mention that this patch is to vanilla 0.7.11.
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that. Thankfully the patch applied relatively cleanly to
> > the CVS sources.
> >
> > > There is a chance that 'patch' on windows is broken - and it's confused
> > by
> > > the comments at the top of the patch. Please remove them and try applying
> > > again.
> >
> > There's no question that patch on Windows is broken, at least in the
> > version of cygwin that I've got (I've had plenty of problems with it in the
> > past as well). It actually blows up near the end of the patch file; most of
> > it gets successfully patched. I may try breaking it up to see if that helps
> > any.
> >
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> I got the patch working with only one modification, at least on linux. In
> order to get other people able to apply this, I have now put up on my
> website a `cvs diff` against current sources. It is a tarball of both a
> patch for wv and a patch for abi. Maybe this will apply on win32.
What change was required?
As for cause of break of 'patch' for windows - I think that translations to
russian (that have a lot of characters with values >127) may cause this,
though I'm not sure. They are near the end of the patch.
> sam th
> sam@uchicago.edu
> http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
Best regards,
-Vlad
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