Re: [bug-patch] patch on x86-interix

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thursday 26 May 2011 10:43:41 Markus Duft wrote:
> On 05/25/11 22:43, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > [CCing bug-gnulib]
> > 
> > Markus Duft wrote in
> > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2011-05/msg00023.html>:
> >> For quite a while now, i have patch working on x86-interix with a small
> >> patch ( :D ). I'd really love to see this patch ([1]) go upstream, if
> >> that's ok with you. Could you please take a look at it, and possibly
> >> comment on it?
> >>
> >> [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/browser/trunk/prefix-overlay/sys
> >> -devel/patch/files/patch-2.6.1-interix-nomultibyte.patch
> > 
> > This patch touches quotearg.c, which comes from gnulib. Your comment
> > indicates bugs in the wide character support of that platform. Gnulib
> > attempts to work around all such issues.
> > 
> > Do you know what goes wrong? Do you have a small test program?
> 
> Trying to find out ;) First of all, patch seems to miss strnlen.c in the 
tarball (2.6.1).

Checking ... but could you please try the latest snapshot in 
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/ instead?

Thanks,
Andreas