perl patch 18 makes perl uncompilable

[Larry Wall]

In article <513 at hscfvax.harvard.edu> mohamed at hscfvax.harvard.edu (Mohamed_el_Lozy) writes:
: How useful is the verbose output of patch?  Does ity serve any purpose (other
: than as a debugging tool while patch was being developped)?  Is there a
: way to shut it up?
: 
: My feeling is that optimal behavior would be no output other than a patch
: succeedded or patch failed message.  That would be impossible to miss.  Even
: more in the UNIX tradition would be no message at all unless it failed.

Try -s.  That's why it's there.  It's even documented.

If you're going to apply a lot of patches you probably want to put it in a loop
that checks the exit status each time and refuses to go on if there's a problem.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov