patch unusable to apply patches to binary files

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 18 18:38:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Because patch always reads its input in textmode, it cannot be used to apply
> patches to binary files - e.g. gcc-core-3.3-3.3.1.diff, which updates binary
> .gmo files.

Bummer. I guess I have to patch patch once more. I'll recycle the
--binary option again for this kind of situation as soon as I find some
spare time to do that.
Corinna
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