Renamed all patches file names so that locales are now irrelevant to sort the files.
Removed the locale check as it is now irrelevant.
Removed the experimental binutils 2.17.50.0.xx: 2.18 is here now.

 # Compute IA-64-specific values

 CT_DoArchValues() {

     # The architecture part of the tuple:

     CT_TARGET_ARCH="${CT_ARCH}${target_endian_el}"

 }