23.0.60; Ediff's Apply Patch To A File fails

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

I received files with patches. I opened one in GNU Emacs. When I  
chose from the Tools menu "Apply Patch To A File" it failed. When I  
had open in the other window the ELisp file to be patched, it worked  
with "Apply Patch To A Buffer" from the Tools menu. Is this the  
correct behaviour?

The patch(es) start like:

*** /tmp/tramp.el.~2.629.~      Fri Mar 14 09:46:55 2008
--- /tmp/tramp.el       Fri Mar 14 09:46:55 2008
***************
*** 3051,3073 ****
  First arg OP is either `copy' or `rename' and indicates the  
operation.
  FILENAME is the source file, NEWNAME the target file.
  KEEP-DATE is non-nil if NEWNAME should have the same timestamp as  
FILENAME."
!   (let ((modtime (nth 5 (file-attributes filename))))
...


or:

*** /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el.~2.629.~	2008-02-09  
09:43:33.000000000 +0100
--- /home/albinus/src/tramp/lisp/tramp.el	2008-03-15  
17:57:33.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 3051,3073 ****
  First arg OP is either `copy' or `rename' and indicates the  
operation.
  FILENAME is the source file, NEWNAME the target file.
  KEEP-DATE is non-nil if NEWNAME should have the same timestamp as  
FILENAME."
!   (let ((modtime (nth 5 (file-attributes filename))))




In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
 of 2008-03-15 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-pop' '--without-sound' '-- 
with-xft' '--with-libotf' '--with-dbus' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '-- 
enable-font-backend' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application  
Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/caml:/ 
Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/share/emacs21/site-lisp/elib'  
'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/system-openssl/ 
lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/local/clamXav/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig'  
'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -D__BIND_NOSTATIC -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/ 
include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include/ 
freetype2 -idirafter /usr/X11R6/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -gfull - 
bind_at_load -Wno-pointer-sign -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 - 
mno-powerpc64 -fast -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize -freorder-blocks- 
and-partition -fno-crossjumping' 'LDFLAGS=-bind_at_load -dead_strip - 
multiply_defined suppress -L/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib -L/sw/lib/ 
freetype219/lib''

Important settings:
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--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

 "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no  
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take  
away."
                                – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry