I have unpacked the source code of efivar-0.23.tar.gz and trying to apply the following patch: http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/117073/ to be able to compile it.
I have entered the unpacked directory, and issued the following command: patch -Np1 ../efivar.patch, but nothing is happening. It just waits (like it is doing something, but nothing is happening).
How is it possible to apply this patch? I was looking through different articles on the net, but the result seems to be the same..
The patch command expects the Patch at stdin. So either pipe the patch into the command:
patch -Np1 < ../efivar.patch
or specify the input file with the -i argument.
patch -Np1 -i ../efivar.patch
As you can see, the first diff is from file a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/efivar/efivar/0001-efivar-fix-for-cross-compile.patch.
Let's assume the actual relativ-file path is efivar/0001-efivar-fix-for-cross-compile.patch from your current working directory. Then you have to tell patch to ignore the first 4 directory levels, so it can find the files to patch. You do this by saying p4 instead of p1.
Alternatively, since the patch in question was created with Git, you could use Git to apply it:
curl patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/117073/mbox/ | git am
Or:
curl patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/117073/raw/ | git apply
