patch -Np1 -i ../procps-&procps-patch-version;.patch: This patch fixes a locale problem that makes top crash under certain locale settings. make XSCPT="" install: This will set the Makefile variable XSCPT to an empty value so that the XConsole installation is disabled. Otherwise "Make install" tries to copy the file XConsole to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. And that directory does not exist, because X is not installed.