[Buildbot-devel] Anyone else running tryPatch tests succesfully on windows?

[Mark Roddy]

Did you try UnxUtils?
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

I use it under XP without any problems, but I don't have access to
Vista machine so I can't test.

-Mark


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Marcus Lindblom <macke at yar.nu> wrote:
> Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've had constant errors on the tryPatch test for all supported VCs
>> (svn, cvs, darcs, mercurial, git) on my Vista x64 computer, and I've
>> managed to cobble together a fix by doing something a bit backwards,
>> namely replacing \r\n with \n.
>>
>> Dustin was rightfully a bit confused by the fix, and as am I now that I
>> think about it, so I'd like to rule out it being my computer and all.
>> (I'm using git's patch.exe at the moment.)
>
> This seems to be the cause. I retried with GnuWin32's patch.exe, which
> made the tests pass.
>
> However, that patch does not work well on Vista with UAC (it lacks the
> proper manifest).
>
> Does anyone know where to get a working patch.exe?
>
> Cheers,
> /Marcus
>
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