[Rd] R-1.3.0-1.3.1.diff does not patch correctly

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> wb@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
> 
> > Subj. says it. The patch contains several lines complaining about "No newline".
> > After removing these the patch was applicable.
> 
> Odd. This worked cleanly when I tried it on RedHat 7.1. What version
> of patch is this?
> 
> The offending lines are flagged with a \ in col.1, which is
> undocumented in the info file for diff, but obviously discernible from
> ordinary unidiff lines (which have either space, + , or - ). So I
> suspect that a recent "patch" just treats that as a comment.
> 
> Looks like the problem could be difficult to avoid (except by ensuring
> that we don't have any files without terminal newlines) since I see no
> diff option controlling the behaviour.

BTW: The offending files are these:

+++ R-1.3.1/src/library/base/man/Rhome.Rd       Sun Aug  5 02:00:39 2001
+++ R-1.3.1/src/library/base/man/kronecker.Rd   Sun Aug  5 02:00:39 2001
+++ R-1.3.1/src/library/base/man/manova.Rd      Sun Aug  5 02:00:39 2001
+++ R-1.3.1/src/library/mva/man/Harman74.cor.Rd Wed Aug  8 06:32:40 2001
+++ R-1.3.1/src/macintosh/FF_CREATE     Sun Aug 19 08:55:53 2001
+++ R-1.3.1/src/macintosh/GETVERSION    Sun Aug 19 08:56:27 2001
+++ R-1.3.1/src/macintosh/ReadMe.MPW    Sun Aug 19 08:04:58 2001

The ones in the .Rd files should be avoidable. I'm less sure about the
Mac files.

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