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

 Fix for psim build failure due to -lz

 See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12202

 --- gdb-7.2.orig/sim/ppc/Makefile.in

 +++ gdb-7.2/sim/ppc/Makefile.in

 @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@

  PACKAGE_OBJ = @sim_pk_obj@

 -psim: $(TARGETLIB) main.o $(LIBIBERTY_LIB) $(BFD_LIB) $(LIBS) $(LIBINTL_DEP)

 +psim: $(TARGETLIB) main.o $(LIBIBERTY_LIB) $(BFD_LIB) $(LIBINTL_DEP)

  	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(SIM_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o psim$(EXEEXT) main.o $(TARGETLIB) $(BFD_LIB) $(LIBINTL) $(LIBIBERTY_LIB) $(LIBS)

  run: psim