/usr/bin/patch is in fact a very old version of Larry Wall's patch. (*Very*
old.)
The assumption is that if you care, you'll hit a SunSITE for the GNU stuff;
and if you don't care, what else is there to say? Meanwhile what they ship
is compatible with older standards, and I've seen GNU stuff cause some
commercial packages to explode rather messily; some examples are bash
incompatibility with both old /bin/sh and commercially current /bin/ksh
scripts and GNU make not properly handling some makefile constructs that are
accepted by virtually every other version of make.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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