While attempting to use the default Solaris patch command to apply the suhosin patch to the PHP source code, the patch command bombed out:
$ /bin/patch -p0 < suhosin-patch-5.1.6-0.9.5.patch
Looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
The next patch looks like a unified context diff.
File to patch:
The unified diff contained the name of each file to patch, so I decided to see if the GNU patch utility (which is installed in /bin on most Solaris hosts) worked:
$ /bin/gpatch -p0 < suhosin-patch-5.1.6-0.9.5.patch
patching file php-5.1.6/configure
patching file php-5.1.6/configure.in
patching file php-5.1.6/ext/standard/basic_functions.c
patching file php-5.1.6/ext/standard/dl.c
patching file php-5.1.6/ext/standard/file.c
patching file php-5.1.6/ext/standard/file.h
patching file php-5.1.6/ext/standard/info.c
patching file php-5.1.6/ext/standard/syslog.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/fopen_wrappers.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/main.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/php_config.h.in
patching file php-5.1.6/main/php.h
patching file php-5.1.6/main/php_logos.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/snprintf.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/spprintf.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/suhosin_globals.h
patching file php-5.1.6/main/suhosin_logo.h
patching file php-5.1.6/main/suhosin_patch.c
patching file php-5.1.6/main/suhosin_patch.h
patching file php-5.1.6/main/suhosin_patch.m4
patching file php-5.1.6/sapi/apache/mod_php5.c
patching file php-5.1.6/sapi/apache2filter/sapi_apache2.c
patching file php-5.1.6/sapi/apache2handler/sapi_apache2.c
patching file php-5.1.6/sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c
patching file php-5.1.6/sapi/cli/php_cli.c
patching file php-5.1.6/TSRM/TSRM.h
patching file php-5.1.6/TSRM/tsrm_virtual_cwd.c
patching file php-5.1.6/TSRM/tsrm_virtual_cwd.h
patching file php-5.1.6/win32/build/config.w32
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/Makefile.am
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_alloc.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_alloc.h
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_canary.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_compile.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_compile.h
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_constants.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/Zend.dsp
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_errors.h
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend.h
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_hash.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/zend_llist.c
patching file php-5.1.6/Zend/ZendTS.dsp
GNU patch worked flawlessly, which leads me to wonder if the Solaris patch command requires additional flags to process unified diffs similar to this. I have had a number of issues arise with the default Solaris patch utility over the years, and for some reason it doesn’t seem to process unified diffs as smoothly as the GNU patch utility. In the interm, I aliased patch to gpatch to avoid these types of issues. :)