diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/apply.sh b/scripts/coccinelle/apply.sh
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+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/apply.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# apply.sh:
+# run spatch with appropriate includes and builtins for the Tor source code
+
+top="$(dirname "$0")/../.."
+
+spatch -macro_file_builtins "$top"/scripts/coccinelle/tor-coccinelle.h \
+       -I "$top" -I "$top"/src -I "$top"/ext "$@"