patch2.0 error ? (or why do patch8 for elm fail ?)

[Huber Daniel]

Hi 

First: 
	Happy New Year  ( I know, you read this about 1'000'000 times) :-) 

Second:

I have installed Elm2.2 on my machine (Plexus P/55, UNIX SysV.2)

Then I patched Elm2.2 with the patches #0..#7. Everything works great.

But with patch #8.......  see below what's happened.

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Script started on Wed Jan 10 15:52:31 1990

# patch -p -N <patches/patch8
Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:


...[some stuff deleted]...


|Index: src/mailmsg2.c
|Prereq: 2.32
|*** ../elm2.2/src/mailmsg2.c	Mon May  8 21:53:52 1989
|--- src/mailmsg2.c	Wed May 24 19:01:21 1989
--------------------------
Good.  This file appears to be the 2.32 version.
Patching file src/mailmsg2.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 14.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 54.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 63.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 172.
Assertion failed: fillsrc==p_end+1 || fillsrc==repl_beginning, file pch.c, line 719
abort - core dumped
# 
# patch -v
$Header: patch.c,v 2.0.1.6 88/06/22 20:46:39 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 12
# cat hdrs/patchlevel.h
#define PATCHLEVEL 8
# 

script done on Wed Jan 10 15:55:34 1990
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What's wrong ?? 

Is "Assertion failed" an error from "patch"?
You see, I have patch patchlevel #12.
And "core dumped", It's caused by the shell ?

I'm not an expert in such things, but it looks like an error in patch.

I tried with ksh (Korn-Shell) and sh (Bourne-Shell). No difference.

Who can help me ????

How can I fix that ?

How can I patch the rest from Elm2.2 ?

Please e-mail. Thanks


		Daniel
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