Sorry, I didn't realize some versions of patch would balk at creating
a new file - my version (2.5.4) didn't have this issue.
If no one can find out how to make patch create new files, maybe we
could encapsulate the patch in a runscript that will create the file
in question before patching?
-Dan
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM, David A. Case <case.scripps.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008, Carlos Simmerling wrote:
>
> > patches are attached- let me know if I should so something else with them,
> > and it would be great if you could have someone double check the test
> > cases passing.
>
> I'll look at these.
>
> The problem I have is that when I execute "patch -p0 -N < amber10.bugfix.4"
> the patch chokes on test/trajene/mdcrd.out.save. This is a new file, and
> patch (at least my version) doesn't want to create a new file from nothing.
>
> Does anyone on the list know the proper way to create a patch file that
> creates a new file that didn't exist before? I don't see any arguments to
> patch itself that helps. I can workaround this by doing
> touch test/trajene/mdcrd.outlsave
> before the patch (creating a dummy file to be updated), but this can't be the
> correct general solution.
>
> ..thanks!...dave
>
>
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