<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jeff,<div><br></div><div>You know you are not really using "patch", but the dumbed-down patch-compatible BusyBox command? If you have real "patch" on your system, maybe all you have to do is alter your PATH so it gets used instead of BusyBox's patch. Otherwise, like this is for an embedded system, you might have to cross-compile/build from an environment with grown-up versions of the development tools.</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 24 Jun 2014, at 4:13 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>What version of patch do I need for the following errors to disappear?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>jeff<br><br>Patching libtool.m4 to enable support for powerpcle... patch:<br>unrecognized option `--forward'<br>BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary<br><br>Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-p NUM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Strip NUM leading components from file names<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-i DIFF<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Read DIFF instead of stdin<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-R<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reverse patch<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-N<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ignore already applied patches<br><br>failed<br>Patching libtool.m4 for compatibility with nagfor shared libraries...<br>patch: unrecognized option `--forward'<br>BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary<br><br>Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-p NUM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Strip NUM leading components from file names<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-i DIFF<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Read DIFF instead of stdin<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-R<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reverse patch<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-N<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ignore already applied patches<br><br>failed<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>running autoreconf in src/mpl<br>libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `confdb'.<br>libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltmain.sh'<br>libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `confdb'.<br>libtoolize: copying file `confdb/libtool.m4'<br>libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltoptions.m4'<br>libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltsugar.m4'<br>libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltversion.m4'<br>libtoolize: copying file `confdb/lt~obsolete.m4'<br>Patching libtool.m4 to enable support for powerpcle... patch:<br>unrecognized option `--forward'<br>BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary<br><br>Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-p NUM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Strip NUM leading components from file names<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-i DIFF<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Read DIFF instead of stdin<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-R<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reverse patch<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-N<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ignore already applied patches<br><br>failed<br>Patching libtool.m4 for compatibility with nagfor shared libraries...<br>patch: unrecognized option `--forward'<br>BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary<br><br>Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-p NUM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Strip NUM leading components from file names<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-i DIFF<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Read DIFF instead of stdin<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-R<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reverse patch<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-N<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ignore already applied patches<br><br>failed<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>running autoreconf in src/util/logging/rlog<br><br>-- <br>Jeff Hammond<br><a href="mailto:jeff.science@gmail.com">jeff.science@gmail.com</a><br>http://jeffhammond.github.io/<br>_______________________________________________<br>To manage subscription options or unsubscribe:<br>https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/devel<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>