[bug-patch] Re: Segfault in patch

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:38:56 Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> Is this the proper place for "patch" bug reports?  I see references to a
> "address@hidden" mailing list all over the gnu website, but can't
> find the actual list.

Until very recently, address@hidden was an alias to address@hidden 
It is a separate list now; see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch.

> Patch mishandles the program name when parsing arguments:
>
> $ ./patch -Verbose
> Segmentation fault
>
> $ patch -Verbose
> patch: invalid argument `erbose' for `--version-control or -V option'
> Valid arguments are:
>   - `none', `off'
>   - `simple', `never'
>   - `existing', `nil'
>   - `numbered', `t'
>
> $ patch --version
> patch 2.5.9
> Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall
> Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Although the tarball is well hidden in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/, the 
current version of patch is 2.5.9. Patch hasn't been activey maintained for a 
while now; I have yet to clean this up.

Your report is against version 2.5.4, and I cannot reproduce in 2.5.9 (and 
neither can you, it seems ;-).

Thanks,
Andreas