There's no longer any reason to require GNU awk:
- the only part that required it (socks proxy settings) is gone,
- all remaining awk scripts are POSIXly correct (or should be).

-------- diffstat follows --------
/trunk/configure | 5 2 3 0 ++---
/trunk/Makefile.in | 2 0 2 0 --
/trunk/scripts/build/kernel/linux.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/scripts/build/internals.sh | 1 0 1 0 -
/trunk/scripts/build/mpfr.sh | 2 1 1 0 +-
/trunk/scripts/functions | 4 2 2 0 ++--
/trunk/scripts/saveSample.sh.in | 4 2 2 0 ++--
7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Original patch from Gentoo:

gentoo/src/patchsets/binutils/2.19/76_all_use-new-ld-dtags.patch

diff -durN binutils-2.19.orig/ld/ldmain.c binutils-2.19/ld/ldmain.c

--- binutils-2.19.orig/ld/ldmain.c	2008-11-23 16:54:42.000000000 +0100

+++ binutils-2.19/ld/ldmain.c	2008-11-23 16:56:16.000000000 +0100

@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@

   link_info.allow_undefined_version = TRUE;

   link_info.keep_memory = TRUE;

+  link_info.new_dtags = TRUE;

   link_info.combreloc = TRUE;

   link_info.strip_discarded = TRUE;

   link_info.emit_hash = TRUE;