perl patch 18 makes perl uncompilable

[Mohamed_el_Lozy]

In article <2641 at dciem.UUCP> tim at dciem.UUCP (Tim Pointing) writes:
>(I may have missed seeing a patch fail but I don't think so...)
>

A patch (#18) DID fail.  However, with the verbose output of patch it is
very easy to miss.  I did, and wondered what on earth was going on.

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.