[ooo-build] Applying of Patches Fails When Building ooo-build 3.2.1.4

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On 06/18/2010 05:11 PM, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 16:58 -0700, ooo-build at opennix.com wrote:
>> On 06/18/2010 04:36 PM, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:18 -0700, ooo-build at opennix.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Testing patch calc-perf-speedup-pagebreak-update.diff failed. at
>>>> /tmp/ooo-build-3.2.1.4/patches/apply.pl line 98.
>>>> make: *** [stamp/patch.apply] Error 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This also happened with 3.2.1.3, which was the first 3.2.1 version I
>>>> attempted to build.
>>>>
>>>> Any help is appreciated.  Please let me know if more information is
>>>> required.
>>>
>>> Check the version of your patch program.  If it's not 2.5.9, try to
>>> upgrade it to that version.  My gut feeling is that you are using a
>>> version older than 2.5.9 which is known to choke on applying that above
>>> patch (of mine).
>>>
>>> Kohei
>>>
>>
>> Kohei,
>>
>> Thanks for the tip.  The version of patch that ships with Slackware 13.1
>> is 2.5.4.  I'll upgrade to 2.5.9 and try again.
>>
>> Did something change with the calc-perf-speedup-pagebreak-update.diff
>> patch from the 3.2.0 branch and the 3.2.1 branch?  I didn't have
>> problems building ooo-build 3.2.0.x with patch version 2.5.4.
>
> I may have hand-edited some hunks in that patch.  The older patch
> programs were pretty picky on hand-crafted hunks especially when the
> number of context line(s) before and after the changed line(s) were
> different.
>
> Petr just checked in a fix for that patch so that it would apply even
> with the older patch versions.  So, you may want to try the latest from
> the ooo-build-3-2-1 branch in case you can't (or don't want to) upgrade
> your patch program.
>
> HTH,
>
> Kohei

I downloaded the diff for this patch.  I'll apply that rather than 
upgrade the patch program on my system and see if that works.

Thanks for your help.

-Mike