[14686] in Athena Bugs
IRIX has an ancient patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Sep 22 12:33:30 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:33:26 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
It seems that IRIX has an ancient version of patch.
For instance, it's missing the -E option found in the
current (either from Larry Wall or the FSF) version
of patch (2.1*):
-E, --remove-empty-files
causes patch to remove output files that are empty
after the patches have been applied.
This causes me to wonder just how ancient it is. I guess perhaps
it's a version of patch distributed with X11R5:
[opus!jhawk] ~xfree86/src> ident `which patch`
/usr/bin/X11/patch:
$Header: /proj/irix5.3/isms/x/mit/util/patch/RCS/patch.c,v 1.1 1992/05/18 10:31:23 hohn Exp $
$Header: IRIX 5.3:1021572020 built 10/17/94 at pigheart:/joist/5.3MR/root $
(the manpage seems to match up with the one in ~x11r5/src/mit/util/patch).
This is probably an extremely low priority issue, but someone might want
to suggest to SGI that they update the version of patch distributed
in IRIX to be current with the current version distributed by the patch
"vendor". X11R6.1 has the current version of patch, FWIW.
--jhawk
