diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5011c65..5de2b97 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  11 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_compile.sh:
+  It helps if we assign the correct value to version
+  Send output of patch command to /dev/null
+  Show a message saying we're patching if there are patches for the util
+
   11 Mar 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>
   +patches/busybox/1.7.4/1.7.4-static-error.diff:
   Add busybox patch to remove error about compiling statically
diff --git a/gen_compile.sh b/gen_compile.sh
index 33377e0..d4b7c8d 100644
--- a/gen_compile.sh
+++ b/gen_compile.sh
@@ -184,16 +184,17 @@ reset_args()
 
 apply_patches() {
 	util=$1
-	version=$1
+	version=$2
 
 	if [ -d "${GK_SHARE}/patches/${util}/${version}" ]
 	then
+		print_info 1 "${util}: >> Applying patches..."
 		for i in "${GK_SHARE}/patches/${util}/${version}/*"
 		do
 			patch_success=0
 			for j in `seq 0 5`
 			do
-				patch -p${j} -f < "${i}"
+				patch -p${j} --backup-if-mismatch -f < "${i}" >/dev/null
 				if [ $? = 0 ]
 				then
 					patch_success=1