<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2007 6:26 AM, Arthur David Olson <<a href="mailto:olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov">olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Here are proposed changes to eliminate the "P" macro from time zone source<br>(a first step in simplifying the code by assuming C99 compilers).<br><br> --ado</blockquote><div><br>I tried to apply this as a patch and run into two problems.
<br><ol><li>The file names are not readily obvious to the patch program; the names it sees are /tmp/geta13002 and /tmp/getb13002 etc, rather than (say) date.c.</li><li>There should be a 2 characters (eg two blanks, or "! " or "+ ") at the start of each line, but by the time Gmail gets the message, there's a blank missing at the start of lines such as the #ifndef lines at the start of the patch below. I also had some unfortunate line-wrapping, but I'm willing to blame that on the (other) email program I use.
<br></li><li>I tried manually fixing up the patch file for the line starts, but was not successful.<br></li></ol> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>------- date.c -------<br>*** /tmp/geta13002 Thu Nov 8 09:23:34 2007<br>--- /tmp/getb13002 Thu Nov 8 09:23:34 2007<br>***************<br>*** 1,6 ****<br> #ifndef lint<br> #ifndef NOID<br>! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)date.c
8.2";<br> /*<br> ** Modified from the UCB version with the SCCS ID appearing below.<br> */<br>--- 1,6 ----<br> #ifndef lint<br> #ifndef NOID<br>! static char elsieid[] = "@(#)date.c 8.3";<br> /*<br>
** Modified from the UCB version with the SCCS ID appearing below.<br> */<br> </blockquote><div><br><br>Did anyone else run into parallel problems, or is it an artefact of the mix of environments I'm using?<br><br>
</div></div>-- <br>Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>> #include <disclaimer.h><br>Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2007.0914 - <a href="http://dbi.perl.org">
http://dbi.perl.org</a><br>"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."