[oe] do_patch fails if path starts with ./

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:30:47AM +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When generating my (normally small) patches I typically do a cp file
> file.orig in the work dir, then change file and at the end do a diff
> -urN path/file.oirg path/file >file.patch
> no probllems with that (although if there are recommendations to do
> things simpler/better, I'm of course open to suggestions).
> 
> However yesterday I copied and pasted filenames and ended up with
> diff -urN ./path/file.orig ./path/file >file.patch

Have you tried:
diff -urN path/file.orig path/file >file.patch

> of course then in file.patch the filenames starts with ./
> when that happens do_patch does not find the file.(probably because it
> thinks there is an additional directory because it does not see that
> ./ is actually the same dir)

You may want to play with the pnum variable (increase it?) in the SRC_URI 
of the patch...

> is this a bug in our build system? or in patch?
> or should I just avoid using ./ if I create a patch?
> 
> btw: I alredy tried diff -Nurd (so an additional d flag) but that did
> not make a difference).

-- 
Denys