[OE-core] Native patch appears broken on Fedora 21

[Mark Hatle]

On 10/28/15 6:48 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
> I've been chasing an annoying build failure in a clients u-boot recipe.
> 
> One of the patches adds an executable python script to the u-boot tools
> directory and runs it as part of the build.
> 
> With recent master on a Fedora 20 system, it works.
> 
> Recent master on Fedora 21, the script does not end up marked as
> executable so build fails.
> 
> After much thinking and poking and remembering how this is supposed to
> work I get the brilliant idea to copy the patch binary from the F20
> machine to the F21 machine. Problem goes away.
> 
> Something is weird here, I can't believe this is the only patch in the
> system that marks a file executable and runs it, but maybe it is.

Most of the time I patch things in, and then run a chmod to ensure it's
executable.  Then I'm sure it will work.  (Patch doing mode changes is 'fairly
new'...)

--Mark

> Versions of patch.
> 
> F20 GNU patch 2.7.1
> F21 GNU patch 2.7.5
> 
> Looking at the patch changelog didn't help.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what to do about this?
> 
> Philip
>