PR = "${INC_PR}.3"
 
 # 001-411.diff contains 411 patches fetched from upstream
-SRC_URI += "file://001-411.diff;apply=no"
-SRC_URI += "file://configure.in_remove_CC_quotes.patch;apply=no"
+SRC_URI += "file://001-411.diff;patchdir=.."
+SRC_URI += "file://configure.in_remove_CC_quotes.patch;patchdir=.."
 SRC_URI += "file://vimrc"
 
-# we need to apply patches in other dir then ${S}
-do_patch() {
-       cd ${WORKDIR}/vim${VIMVER}
-       patch -p1 <${WORKDIR}/001-411.diff
-       patch -p1 <${WORKDIR}/configure.in_remove_CC_quotes.patch
-}
-
 do_install_append() {
     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/vimrc ${D}/${datadir}/vim
 }