From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 12:11:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B011016A4CF for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:11:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bloodwood.hunterlink.net.au (smtp-local.hunterlink.net.au [203.12.144.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADCB43D49 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:11:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from ppp2D44.dyn.pacific.net.au (ppp2D44.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.45.68])j38CBBH4007706; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:11:12 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance To: Alex Varju In-Reply-To: <42560932.6050702@varju.ca> References: <424CCC27.6060807@varju.ca> <42551A04.8050201@php.net> <42560932.6050702@varju.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:11:23 +1000 Message-Id: <1112962283.3600.10.camel@dirk.no.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: antonio@php.net cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patching files with spaces in the name X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:11:15 -0000 On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 21:31 -0700, Alex Varju wrote: > Antonio Carlos Venancio Junior wrote: > >> Alex Varju wrote: > >> While I'm sure this question must have come up in the past, I can't > >> find anything in the archives. Is there any good method for patching > >> source files with spaces in the name? > >> > >> I'm looking at creating an eclipse-devel port for Eclipse 3.1m5a. > >> I've already got something working now that allows me to build on > >> AMD64 (see the freebsd-java archives if you are interested). Now I'm > >> trying to clean up my work, and one of the problems I've encountered > >> is that Eclipse uses spaces in many of their paths. If I take a diff > >> for changes I've made to files within one of these directories, the > >> patch won't apply again afterwards. > >> > >> Are there any ports that deal with similar problems in an elegant manner? > > > > do you have some examples? > > Hi Antonio, > > Yes, I do have an example. I've attached a diff from the port I have in > progress. The theory is that it should update the file build.sh in the > directory "plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library". > Unfortunately, because of the spaces in "Eclipse SWT PI", the patch does > not work. One option could be to put the patches in files/ without the patch- suffix, and apply them in a post-patch target explicitly listing the files to be patched on the command line, eg. post-patch: @${PATCH} ${PATCH_ARGS} "path/with spaces/somefile" ${FILESDIR}/thepatch