I've got everything compiling properly now, using antiquated versions of binutils/gcc; and would like to jump forward; however, the realtek sources for binutils were molested by some sort of c editor. The editor changed the spacing and alignment of EVERYTHING. the whitespace and newlines are easily ignored by diff; but when they are used together, it causes diff to spit out an entire block for it..

EX:
when
int blah() {
becomes
int blah()
{

Now, normally I'd just bite the bullet and manually delete all of this garbage; but the .patch comes out to just shy of 10MB. This works fine for compiling locally, and keeping binutils 2.16.1; but to be able to bump binutils up to a more common level, I need to prune that patch down to only patch the parts that need it...

any ideas?

V/r,
Conjur