patch croaks on subdirectories

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <200 at cvbnet2.UUCP> by news at cvbnet2.UUCP (news):
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| While trying to update perl 2.0 I ran into the following problem with patch.
| (note that perl 2.0 has several subdirectories: x2p, t, lib, eg, ...)
| 
| Any time the Index or the filenames called for a file in one of the
| subdirectories, Patch would ask me "File to patch:"
| OK so far, BUT in the case of Makefile.SH and x2p/Makefile.SH (ie, a different
| Makefile.SH in the main directory and a subdirectory), patch attempted to
| patch the original Makefile.SH when the x2p/Makefile.SH was called for. Of
| course, the patch would fail and the rejects would end up in Makefile.SH.rej.
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If you had read either (1) the patches or (2) the manual for patch, you
would have discovered the "-p" option to patch.

"When all else fails, read the manual" is a bad philosophy.  At least read
the manual BEFORE posting to the net.

++Brandon
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