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

[Marcus Lindblom]

Mark Roddy wrote:
> 
> 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?
 >
 > 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.

I hadn't, but I just did and it has the same UAC issue as with 
GnuWin32's patch. :-/

Cheers,
/Marcus