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

 Original patch from Gentoo.

 -= BEGIN original header =-

 -= END original header =-

 diff -durN uClibc-0.9.30.orig/Rules.mak uClibc-0.9.30/Rules.mak

 --- uClibc-0.9.30.orig/Rules.mak	2008-11-12 13:24:16.000000000 +0100

 +++ uClibc-0.9.30/Rules.mak	2009-02-07 09:57:59.000000000 +0100

 @@ -519,6 +519,7 @@

  endif

  CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-std=gnu99,)

 +CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-fgnu89-inline,)

  LDFLAGS_NOSTRIP:=$(CPU_LDFLAGS-y) -shared \

  	-Wl,--warn-common -Wl,--warn-once -Wl,-z,combreloc