Add .hgignore file.

List all generated or temp files in .hgignore, so they
don't clutter the screen when running hg status.
(transplanted from befdb88324e18e1e80260906d0459a56ea0eb37a)

populate: fix installing dynamic linker 'ld.so'

The dynamic linker, ld.so, needs the execute bit to be set.
Detect tht the library being installed is in fact ld.so and
install it with 0755 instead of 0644.

Fix detecting src == dst.

Use a simpler command to copy src -> dst.

Also change echo to printf, get rid of 'echo -n', which is
highly non-portable.


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/trunk/scripts/populate.in | 76 43 33 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
(transplanted from d7ddcb75e0f703e2ba6d17169167356389224870)

[configure] Use hg, instead of svn, to compute the version string

Now we moved from Subversion to Mercurial, use the hg command to
compute the version string.

Manually backported from 1409:7264ce426be4 plus 1430:933eee133cbf
as too much changes have been made to ./configure in the meantime.

[complib:mpfr] Fix building MPFR in some weird cases

The tmul test uses a compiled-in input file in $(srcdir).
The problem is that the Makefile passes it unquoted. The C code
tries to stringify it using clever macros, which may *usually* work.

In my case the source directory was named:
.../toolchain-powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe-1.0-2.fc10/.../tests
And guess what? During testing I found out the program fails because
it tries to open:
.../toolchain-powerpc-e500v2-1-gnuspe-1.0-2.fc10/.../tests

Yes, CPP tokenized the macro before stringifying it and not surprisingly
the 'linux' part was converted to 1.
[on Fedora-10: cpp (GCC) 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)]

So the attached patch simplify the macros and pass the path as string
from the Makefile.

[config] Merge CONFIG_SHELL selection.

[config] Warn againt using ash as CONFIG_SHELL

It apears that more and more ./configure scripts and Makefiles
make use of non-POSIXly correct shell constructs, that don't
work with ash.

For now, just warn the user against using ash, but keep it as
an option in case newer versions of the /broken/ components
come fixed, and we can again use ash, as it is in some cases
really faster than bash.

[config] Allow user to specify custom CONFIG_SHELL

In case the shell the user wants to use as CONFIG_SHELL is located in a
weird place (eg. /opt/bash/bin/bash), or is weirdly named (eg. bash-4),
let the user enter the patch to the shell.

[config] Add bash as a possible CONFIG_SHELL

On some systems and/or for some components, it may be necessary to
explicitly use bash as the shell used by ./configure and Makefiles.

[config] Change the way to select the CONFIG_SHELL

Transform the single boolean option to a 'choice' selection
with two options: "sh" and "ash".

This is needed to later add "bash" as override.

Merge the queue with all new component versions.