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/2.19/91_all_libiberty-pic.patch

diff -durN binutils-2.19.orig/libiberty/Makefile.in binutils-2.19/libiberty/Makefile.in

--- binutils-2.19.orig/libiberty/Makefile.in	2008-07-24 15:51:49.000000000 +0200

+++ binutils-2.19/libiberty/Makefile.in	2008-11-23 17:03:33.000000000 +0100

@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@

 	  $(AR) $(AR_FLAGS) $(TARGETLIB) \

 	    $(REQUIRED_OFILES) $(EXTRA_OFILES) $(LIBOBJS); \

 	  $(RANLIB) $(TARGETLIB); \

+	  cp $(TARGETLIB) ../ ; \

 	  cd ..; \

 	else true; fi