Incompatibility of PIC and non-PIC

[Tor Arntsen]

On Aug 20,  5:21, Alan Modra wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
>> btw, is there any option to cvs diff which produces files which can be
>> applied by any known version of patch?  in my experience, patch can't
>> find files specified by Index: lines _unless_ both the +++ and the ---
>> files can't be found -- which is rarely the case with common names such
>> as Makefile or ChangeLog.
>
>I haven't found one, and it's a real pain.  I tend to edit patches
>covering multiple directories before passing them to patch.
>
>"sed -e '/^[+-][+-]/d' < cvs_diff_file | patch -p0 --posix" ought to work.
>
>Alan

Which versions of CVS are you using?  CVS used to output diffs without
including the directory path in the --- and +++ lines, but that's been
fixed long ago.  I don't have any problems with patch anymore.

-Tor