RTEMS Add-ons

[Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>]

Eric Norum has made (and implemented) a suggestion that seems
to simplify building add-on packages for an RTEMS BSP.  He
has done this for avl, readline, and curses.  

The idea is to have an RTEMS-style Makefile that does the
configure, build, and install for a particular package.
This Makefile knows how to pick up variables inside the
RTEMS Makefile structure and pass them to the packages
configure scripts and make.  

Although no examples currently need to, it is possible
that it could apply a patch.

I have put his example in:

ftp.oarcorp.com:/private/arc_snapshots/add-ons

I like the simplicity of this approach and the fact that
I think it can be applied to any third party package.
It is a simple way to capture the build knowledge in a 
portable way.  

Feedback and comments appreciated.

NOTE: This is a general solution.  It should work on
all hosts/targets.  It can be used as the basis for
other packaging schemes like RPM in the future.

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