Johan: It appears that there is a bug in makepatch. If the file is changed from non-existent to zero-length, it appears like the newfile function in makepatch tries to create a patch, which it shouldn't. 3 things are fixed: - No bogus diff for changing from no such file to empty file. `touch' + `chmod' is sufficient. - It's bad style to do while (<FH>) { ... } . Use while (defined <FH>) {...} instead. - `patch' was misspelled as `path'. Thanks for creating makepatch. The XEmacs project has been using it successfully. This patch to makepatch is naturally generated by makepatch. (martin＠lasker) ~cdx/import $ makepatch makepatch-2.00_03.tar.bz2 makepatch-2.00_03 Extracting makepatch-2.00_03.tar.bz2 to /usr/tmp/mp17352.d/old... Manifest MANIFEST for makepatch-2.00_03 contains 11 files. Manifest MANIFEST for makepatch-2.00_03 contains 11 files. Processing the filelists ... Collecting patches ... # This is a patch for makepatch-2.00_03 to update it to makepatch-2.00_03 # # To apply this patch: # STEP 1: Chdir to the source directory. # STEP 2: Run the 'applypatch' program with this patch file as input. # # If you do not have 'applypatch', it is part of the 'makepatch' package # that you can fetch from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network: # http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Johan_Vromans/makepatch-x.y.tar.gz # In the above URL, 'x' should be 2 or higher. # # To apply this patch without the use of 'applypatch': # STEP 1: Chdir to the source directory. # STEP 2: Run the 'patch' program with this file as input. # #### End of Preamble #### #### Patch data follows #### diff -c '/usr/tmp/mp17352.d/old/makepatch-2.00_03/script/makepatch' 'makepatch-2.00_03/script/makepatch' Index: ./script/makepatch Prereq: 1.121 *** ./script/makepatch Tue Oct 5 03:27:48 1999 --- ./script/makepatch Mon Mar 26 10:38:30 2001 *************** *** 581,587 **** print $patch (`$cmd`); } ! # By prepending $dot to the names, we can use 'path -p0' as well # as 'patch -p1'. print $patch ("Index: ", File::Spec->catfile($dot,$old), "\n"); --- 581,587 ---- print $patch (`$cmd`); } ! # By prepending $dot to the names, we can use 'patch -p0' as well # as 'patch -p1'. print $patch ("Index: ", File::Spec->catfile($dot,$old), "\n"); *************** *** 667,678 **** $skipped++; return 0; } my $pos = $fh->getpos; ! while ( <$fh> ) { $lines++; } $fh->setpos($pos); my $cmd = $opt_diff . " " . $nul . " " . quotfn($newfn); trace ("+ $cmd (inlined)\n"); print $patch ($cmd, "\n"); --- 667,684 ---- $skipped++; return 0; } + my $pos = $fh->getpos; ! while (defined <$fh> ) { $lines++; } $fh->setpos($pos); + # Avoid creating a patch if the new file is empty. + if ($lines == 0) { + return 1; + } + my $cmd = $opt_diff . " " . $nul . " " . quotfn($newfn); trace ("+ $cmd (inlined)\n"); print $patch ($cmd, "\n"); *************** *** 685,691 **** print $patch (`$cmd`); } ! # Prepending $dot, so we can use 'path -p0' as well as 'patch -p1'. $new = File::Spec->catfile($dot,$new); print $patch ("Index: $new\n"); --- 691,697 ---- print $patch (`$cmd`); } ! # Prepending $dot, so we can use 'patch -p0' as well as 'patch -p1'. $new = File::Spec->catfile($dot,$new); print $patch ("Index: $new\n"); #### End of Patch data #### #### ApplyPatch data follows #### # Data version : 1.0 # Date generated : Mon Mar 26 10:41:19 2001 # Generated by : makepatch 2.00_03 # Recurse directories : Yes # p 'script/makepatch' 52403 985570710 0100755 #### End of ApplyPatch data #### #### End of Patch kit [created: Mon Mar 26 10:41:19 2001] #### #### Patch checksum: 84 2247 22146 #### #### Checksum: 102 2942 14100 #### 1 file need to be patched.