Re: Simple question (breaking the silence again)

I think I mush have the wrong source tree.  I have version 2.4.3 loaded and 
patching against that, I get:

swish> patch -p0 --dry-run <swishe-cygwin.patch
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/bash.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 4 (offset -28 lines).
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/db_native.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 655.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 673.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file swish-e/src/db_native.c.rej
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/extprog.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 143 (offset -9 lines).
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/file.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 85.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 91 (offset -10 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 148 (offset -10 lines).
1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file swish-e/src/file.c.rej
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/file.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 21 (offset -13 lines).
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/filter.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 330 (offset -11 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 424 (offset -11 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 447 (offset -11 lines).
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file swish-e/src/worddata.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 637 (offset -146 lines).

Should I be pointing at something more recent?

David L Norris wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 16:42 -0700, Linda W. (that's swishey, not
> squishey!) wrote:
>> Cygwin -- compiles fine...looks like it is assigned in the Win32
>> basket and the program is mangling the forward slashes to back
>> slashes, which don't work under a posix/*nix environment (hacking
>> source and remaking...)...
> 
> I suspected that may have been an issue.  Cygwin isn't well supported,
> obviously.  The problem is that _WIN32 is being defined by something
> (toolchain? autoconf?).  I'm not really sure why _WIN32 gets defined
> when building with Cygwin.  I don't think Cygwin implements any of the
> Win32 API.  So that doesn't seem like it could ever work.
> 
> I don't really have any easy way to test with Cygwin myself.  But if you
> need Cygwin I've attached an experimental patch.  Please let me know if
> you use it and whether it works.
> 
>>From the directory above the swish-e source code directory:
>   patch -p0 < swishe-cygwin.patch
> 
> 
> (If anyone else wants to try the patch let me know and I'll email it
> directly.  I'm sure the list will mangle it assuming the email doesn't
> bounce outright.)