[Buildroot] Issue Applying Patches to Package

Dylan ohitsdylan at outlook.com
Wed Oct 1 13:55:14 UTC 2025


Hello,

I am trying to patch the psplash package. I've followed the Buildroot 
documentation and set up a global patch directory with the package name 
and the patches within:

/home/dylan/project_name/external/board/my_board/patches
└── psplash
     ├── 0001-psplash-config.patch
     ├── 0002-psplash-colors.patch
     ├── psplash-colors.h
     ├── psplash-colors.h.orig
     ├── psplash-config.h
     └── psplash-config.h.orig

When Buildroot tries to patch the psplash package, it returns an error 
message, "can't find file to patch at input line 3".
I've included the output of "make psplash-patch V=1" in the pastebin 
here: https://paste.ack.tf/ce2678

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here; it seems to me that everything 
is set up correctly.

I've attached the patch files here, as well.

Thank you,
Dylan
-------------- next part --------------
--- psplash-colors.h.orig       2025-09-03 15:00:12.430488536 -0400
+++ psplash-colors.h    2025-09-03 15:04:11.755677016 -0400
@@ -12,16 +12,16 @@
 #define _HAVE_PSPLASH_COLORS_H

 /* This is the overall background color */
-#define PSPLASH_BACKGROUND_COLOR 0xec,0xec,0xe1
+#define PSPLASH_BACKGROUND_COLOR 0x00,0x00,0x00

 /* This is the color of any text output */
-#define PSPLASH_TEXT_COLOR 0x6d,0x6d,0x70
+#define PSPLASH_TEXT_COLOR 0xff,0xff,0xff

 /* This is the color of the progress bar indicator */
-#define PSPLASH_BAR_COLOR 0x6d,0x6d,0x70
+#define PSPLASH_BAR_COLOR 0xff,0xff,0xff

 /* This is the color of the progress bar background */
-#define PSPLASH_BAR_BACKGROUND_COLOR 0xec,0xec,0xe1
+#define PSPLASH_BAR_BACKGROUND_COLOR 0x00,0x00,0x00

 #endif
-------------- next part --------------
--- psplash-config.h.orig       2025-09-03 15:01:21.282531766 -0400
+++ psplash-config.h    2025-09-03 15:10:18.445116066 -0400
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

 /* Bool indicating if the image is fullscreen, as opposed to split screen */
 #ifndef PSPLASH_IMG_FULLSCREEN
-#define PSPLASH_IMG_FULLSCREEN 0
+#define PSPLASH_IMG_FULLSCREEN 1
 #endif

 /* Bool indicated if the progress bar should be disabled */


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