Redid it,this time getting the following few errors during the patch process:
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] n
Apply anyway? [n] n
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file src/mame/video/spbactn.c.rej
This was after one instance of telling it to still go ahead and patch a file only to have it spit ou a few fails (unfortunately so much text went through my terminal window that I can't seem to access that in terminal history for a cut and paste).
As people on here indicateds that this wasn't too much of a problem,I contuned on, using the "make BIGENDIAN=1 powerpc=1 ARCHOPTS="-mpowerpc -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mpowerpc-gpopt -maltivec"" command to compile. When I did, I got the following error message:
Compiling src/emu/cpu/m68000/m68kmake.c...
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
make: *** [obj/sdl/mame/emu/cpu/m68000/m68kmake.o] Error 1
Is there meant to be an alteration to the make command parameters or have I somehow missed something again.