This is another shot in the dark. But these patch files are plain text, right? You were downloading and/or unzipping them with a Windows box?

Is this the old "CR vs. CR/LF" problem? Maybe the patching/compiling software just doesn't like the line endings on the files because they're windows-format instead of linux-format.

Like I said, it's a complete shot in the dark.

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