diff -r 9ad2a3fd1fcc -r a52574521bea scripts/patch-renumber.sh
--- a/scripts/patch-renumber.sh	Tue Nov 10 19:32:11 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/patch-renumber.sh	Thu Aug 18 16:05:48 2011 +0200
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
 myname="$0"
 
 # Parse the tools' paths configuration
-. "paths.mk"
+# It is expected that this script is only to be run from the
+# source directory of crosstool-NG, so it is trivial to find
+# paths.mk (we can't use  ". paths.mk", as POSIX states that
+# $PATH should be searched for, and $PATH most probably doe
+# not include "."), hence the "./".
+. "./paths.mk"
 
 doUsage() {
   cat <<_EOF_