Good question Alexander, I suppose the main reason is - I'm a Win10 person - I know sfa about Linux/Bash/Sh or whatever - and that includes Mingw. But - I need Mingw/msys to do the building and the source code comes in Tar.gz format. I had a play this arvo and wrote a small batch file that used 7z to get the tar out of the .tar.gz - then the same 7z to get the files I needed to edit out of the .tar. I was then able to use my old Dos program - replacer.exe - to edit the files to have what I wanted. I was able to do this within Mingw/msys - so the next thing i'll try is to put this all inside the batch file I already use to do the building. Actually - just thinking about it - my other build batch file extracts the source code from the tar.gz - i'll try just including the replacer program in that & see how we go. Thanks for prompting the thinking. Cheers, David Alexander Pickering wrote: > On 10/11/2019 8:39 PM, David Wall wrote: >> I regularly 'build' GnuCOBOL compiler from source code - however it is >> supplied in 'tar' format. >> I use 'tar' to unpack it and then I need to make changes to certain >> files all the time. >> >> I installed msys-patch and checked thru the documentation - but it >> processes a 'diff' file and >> that confused me no end. Maybe I'll have to investigate how to produce a >> 'diff' file. >> >> What I'd like to do is tell a patch program to: >> >> 1. Find this file 2. Find this text in the file 3. Replace found >> text with new text. >> >> It would be easier to do within Mingw - rather than exit and make the >> patches manually >> then continue with the build. > > Is there any reason you want to use mingw for this? This sounds like a > job for sed + a makefile to me. > > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-Users mailing list > MinGW****@lists***** > > This list observes the Etiquette found at > http://www.mingw.org/Mailing_Lists. > We ask that you be polite and do the same. Disregard for the list etiquette may cause your account to be moderated. > > _______________________________________________ > You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/mingw-users > Also: mailto:mingw****@lists*****?subject=unsubscribe
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