scripts/wrapper.in: Add a comment about readlink not being portable.

Documented that the call to readlink will not work on BSD systems.

configure: make call to readlink portable to non-GNU (BSD) systems

The argument '-e' for readlink is a GNU extension.
In setting the variable 'where' the argument '-e' is not necessary, thus eliminated.

scripts/crosstool-NG.sh.in: On MacOS/BSD use the output of CT_DoConfigGuess for CT_BUILD.

On 64bit MacOS `gcc -dumpmachine` gives i686 for the host machine.
This conflicts with the expectations of some following configure scripts
that a 64bit x86 is given as x86_64; i686 is understood as a 32 bit machine.
config.guess sets the host machine in CT_BUILD correctly.

yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr:
As suggested by Khem RAJ on the ML, always use config.guess.

configure: Do not require stat to be of GNU coreutils

calls to stat have been made portable, thus it is not necessary
that the GNU version is present on the user's system.

scripts/functions: Use stat correctly on non-GNU (BSD/Darwin) systems.

Call to get the directory mode depending on $CT_SYS_OS

yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr:
CT_SYS_OS has changed on Linuxsystem, it only gets the kernel name "Linux",
and not the system name, 'GNU/'.

build/internals.sh: Replace nonportable call to stat

The call to stat to find out if a file is a symlink works only on GNU systems,
and the replacing portable call to readlink is also shorter and more concise code.

yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr:
Apply simpler test, after discussion with author and Arnaud LACOMBE on the ML.

crosstool-NG.sh: suppress failure message from uname -o

On non-GNU systems (BSD/MacOS) there is no uname -o.
Suppress the failure message on these systems in the
call to set CT_SYS_OS (uname -s actually sets this variable).

yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr: remove 'uname -o' altogether.

cc/gcc: add latest version

Add 4.4.4 and forward-port patchset from 4.4.3

kernel/linux: update versions list

Merge.

Revert changeset e7f7220b5ba2

Arnaud LACOMBE rightly pointed out that this was done on the wrong branch.

Revert changeset d341be24dc68

Arnaud LACOMBE rightly pointed out that this was done on the wrong branch.

cc/gcc: add latest version

Add 4.4.4 and forward-port patchset from 4.4.3

kernel/linux: update versions list

1.7: update version to 1.7.0+hg

Tagging release 1.7.0

1.7: create maintenance branch, update version to 1.7.0

scripts/mk-release: pretty-up the per-author stats

Reverse sort first by number of changesets, then sort alphabetically
on the author's names.

docs: update the known issues

samples: update

debug/gdb: install tic in the buildtools directory

'tic' is a build tool, its place is in the buildtools
directory, not in the toolchain's bin directory.

debug/gdb: be less verbose during the ncurses build

scripts: don't set LD_PRELOAD with static companion libraries

When cpmpanion libraries are built statically, it is useless to set
LD_PRELOAD. Worse, it might break the build in some corner cases.

docs: update the section about the wrapper

The wrapper is no longer needed when building
non-shared companion libraries. Document that.

arch/sh: fix type in variant handling

scripts/savesample: be silent when checking for .config file

1.6: update version to 1.6.2+hg

Tagging release 1.6.2

1.6: update version to 1.6.2

cc/gcc: fix cc symlink when executables have an extension

When building a cross-compiler for a host which depends
on file extensions the symlink for cc was not installed correctly

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>
[Yann E. MORIN: style fixes, enhancements, code prettying]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
(transplanted from 214c64ba8b21db15f610eca886fb194a6675e40c)