On 12/07/2011 09:23 AM, Alex Jia wrote: > Hi developers, > I met the following compilation issue when I 'git checkout v0.9.8-rc1' tag > then run './configure&& make': > <snip> > Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/netinet_in.in.h > Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/nonblocking.c > Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/nonblocking.h > Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/open.c > .gnulib/gnulib-tool: line 1475: patch: command not found > .gnulib/gnulib-tool: *** patch file gnulib/local/lib/openpty.c.diff didn't apply cleanly > .gnulib/gnulib-tool: *** Stop. > Failed to bootstrap, please investigate. > make: *** [_autogen] Error 1 > </snip> > > Has any advice about this? Oh my - that means gnulib-tool itself has a dependency on patch(1), but only when there is a local gnulib diff. I'll get that fixed upstream in gnulib for inclusion post-0.9.8; but for now, the solution is for you to 'yum install patch'.

> BTW, it's fine when I compiled latest GIT head. Yep - commit 059d746d dropped a local gnulib diff, which drops the need for patch.