samples: do not use the mirror by default

As the mirror is always tried first, and the default is my server,
it means every download will first hit my server. As I do not have
much mirrored there, it means a lot of time is lost.

Disable use of the mirror for all samples, except the one that does
need it for the uClibc snapshot.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

libc/uClibc: force use of ctor/dtor

Although ctor/dtor do not seem strictly required, missing them proves
rather inconvenient, as ld can't link binaries.

Reported-by: John Spencer <maillist-uclibc@barfooze.de> (sh4rm4 on IRC)
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

scripts/functions: remove messages about failed downloads

When downloading via svn/cvs/... an attempt to retrieve from the
mirror is made. If the mirror does not have the required tarball,
an error message is printed. This is misleading, as the download
may later succeed via svn/cvs/...

Remove the messages about failed downloads altogether.

At the same time, use "if ... then ... fi" instead of "... && ..."

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

configure: more autostuff compatibility

Ignore --program-prefix=...

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
(transplanted from d28b764334b8f8f3acfecafea3b52a6cc2e8a272)

configure: more autostuff compatibility

Ignore --program-prefix=...

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

kerenl/linux: update to latest versions

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

scripts: try the mirror even if downloads are forbidden

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

scripts/functions: use array variables for URLs list

This is needed later, when we'll conditionnally use both the
upstream and the mirror URLs.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

scripts/functions: always prefer the mirror

Currently, the mirror can be used either:
- as a fallback in case upstream is unavailable (default behavior)
- as the preferred source for downloads

But the most common use-case seems to provide a truely-LAN mirror
to speed up downloads in big corpos', and/or provide a 'trusted'
source for the tarballs.

So, make the following changes;
- if a mirror is specified, always try that before trying upstream

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

scripts/functions: cvs retrieval first tries the mirror for tarballs

The cvs download helper looks for the local tarballs dir to see if it
can find a pre-downloaded tarball, and if it does not find it, does
the actual fetch to upstream via cvs.

In the process, it does not even try to get a tarball from the local
mirror, which can be useful if the mirror has been pre-populated
manually (or with a previously downloaded tree).

Fake a tarball get with the standard tarball-download helper, but
without specifying any upstream URL, which makes the helper directly
try the LAN mirror.

Of course, if no mirror is specified, no URL wil be available, and
the standard cvs retrieval will kick in.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>