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(-)

 diff -durN glibc-2.7.orig/Makerules glibc-2.7/Makerules

 --- glibc-2.7.orig/Makerules	2007-08-26 04:18:03.000000000 +0200

 +++ glibc-2.7/Makerules	2008-07-28 15:17:27.000000000 +0200

 @@ -1203,6 +1203,9 @@

  # The include magic above causes those files to use this variable for flags.

  CPPFLAGS-nonlib = -DNOT_IN_libc=1

 +ifneq ($(OBJDUMP_FOR_HOST),)

 +OBJDUMP = $(OBJDUMP_FOR_HOST)

 +endif

  ifeq ($(versioning),yes)

  # Generate normalized lists of symbols, versions, and data sizes.