Bug 81465

Summary: VCSUtils.pm: Prefer "gpatch" over "patch" when it is available.
Product: WebKit Reporter: Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco) <rakuco>
Component: Tools / TestsAssignee: Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco) <rakuco>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, aroben, eric, haraken, mrobinson, xan.lopez
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Flags
Patch
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Patch
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Patch abarth: review-

Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
Reported 2012-03-17 22:09:05 PDT
VCUtils.pm: Prefer "gpatch" over "patch" when it is available.
Attachments
Patch (5.56 KB, patch)
2012-03-17 22:11 PDT, Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
no flags
Patch (5.35 KB, patch)
2012-03-17 22:21 PDT, Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
no flags
Patch (5.39 KB, patch)
2012-03-17 22:23 PDT, Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
abarth: review-
Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
Comment 1 2012-03-17 22:11:23 PDT
Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
Comment 2 2012-03-17 22:21:02 PDT
Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
Comment 3 2012-03-17 22:23:15 PDT
Adam Barth
Comment 4 2012-03-19 00:31:36 PDT
Comment on attachment 132482 [details] Patch Before we start landing patches like this, we should have a more general discussion on webkit-dev about whether we're going to support FreeBSD and which ports want this support.
Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)
Comment 5 2012-05-03 18:50:27 PDT
I think it makes sense to close this. There is no standardization around "alternative names" for the patch binary, so "gpatch" can be considered an arbitrary name which works on a certain OS. Symlinking gpatch to patch in a directory and prepending it to $PATH has the same effect.
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