scripts/functions: add a generic custom location infrastructure

Add a generic custom location infrastructure (inspired by the one in
kernel/linux) to allow the user to use custom tarballs or directories
for any component.

Signed-off-by: "David Holsgrove" <david.holsgrove@xilinx.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: move config option, improve help text, fix API doc]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Message-Id: <131c163c69f9cc81d2be.1349931191@localhost.localdomain>
PatchWork-Id: 190784
Message-Id: <0bbaba9190a76ba97f72.1349931192@localhost.localdomain>
PatchWork-Id: 190785

diff -durN gcc-4.4.5.orig/libstdc++-v3/include/c_global/cstdio gcc-4.4.5/libstdc++-v3/include/c_global/cstdio

--- gcc-4.4.5.orig/libstdc++-v3/include/c_global/cstdio	2009-04-10 01:23:07.000000000 +0200

+++ gcc-4.4.5/libstdc++-v3/include/c_global/cstdio	2010-10-09 23:11:27.000000000 +0200

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@

 _GLIBCXX_END_NAMESPACE

-#if _GLIBCXX_USE_C99

+#if _GLIBCXX_USE_C99 || defined __UCLIBC__

 #undef snprintf

 #undef vfscanf