Re: [Patch] man-1.5p does not compile on Cygwin 1.5.19

[Christian Franke <Christian dot Franke at t-online dot de>]

Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

> > > > > > Christian Franke writes:
> > > > > >             
>
>     > Hi,
>     > below are two patches to compile man-1.5p on Cygwin 1.5.19
>
>     > The first patch fixes a syntax issue in the build script (had it ever
>     > worked ?-)
>
> Yes, in the ash times.
>   

BTW, ash interprets "&& foo" as "true && foo", therefore the lines

 patch -p0 < ${src_patch}
 && mkdirs

may look correct but did not handle patch errors as expected.


> Thanks.
>   

N.P.

Christian


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