--- openembedded/conf/bitbake.conf.orig	2005-07-29 17:13:56 +0200
+++ openembedded/conf/bitbake.conf	2005-07-29 17:14:33 +0200
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
 # Program to be used to patch sources, use 'inherit patcher' to overwrite this:
 
 PATCHCLEANCMD = 'if [ -n "`quilt applied`" ]; then quilt pop -a -R -f || exit 1; fi'
-PATCHCMD = "pnum='%s'; name='%s'; patch='%s'; quilt upgrade >/dev/null 2>&1; quilt import -f -p $pnum -n $name $patch; chmod u+w patches/$name; quilt push"
+PATCHCMD = "pnum='%s'; name='%s'; patch='%s'; mkdir -r patches ; quilt upgrade >/dev/null 2>&1; quilt import -f -p $pnum -n $name $patch; chmod u+w patches/$name; quilt push"
 PATCH_DEPENDS = "quilt-native"
 
 # GNU patch tries to be intellgent about checking out read-only files from