Remove weirdnesses caused by 'letrec*' behavior of record field initializers.

* gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (package-from-tarball): Remove '*' from
  parameter names.  Adjust accordingly.
* gnu/packages/linux-initrd.scm (expression->initrd): Use 'name'
  directly, removing the 'name*' alias.
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (linux-libre-headers, linux-libre): Rename
  'version*' to 'version'.

gnu: Use the 'patches' field of <origin>.

* gnu/packages/apr.scm,
  gnu/packages/autotools.scm,
  gnu/packages/avahi.scm,
  gnu/packages/cdrom.scm,
  gnu/packages/cmake.scm,
  gnu/packages/cpio.scm,
  gnu/packages/cross-base.scm,
  gnu/packages/emacs.scm,
  gnu/packages/flex.scm,
  gnu/packages/fontutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/glib.scm,
  gnu/packages/grub.scm,
  gnu/packages/guile.scm,
  gnu/packages/idutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/libevent.scm,
  gnu/packages/linux.scm,
  gnu/packages/mail.scm,
  gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm,
  gnu/packages/mp3.scm,
  gnu/packages/oggvorbis.scm,
  gnu/packages/pdf.scm,
  gnu/packages/plotutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/qemu.scm,
  gnu/packages/recutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/rush.scm,
  gnu/packages/scheme.scm,
  gnu/packages/system.scm,
  gnu/packages/tcsh.scm,
  gnu/packages/valgrind.scm,
  gnu/packages/vpn.scm,
  gnu/packages/w3m: Use the 'patches' field of <origin> instead of
  adding a patch as input plus using #:patches.

Merge branch 'master' into core-updates

gnu: make-bootstrap: Remove the `debug' output from the static Coreutils.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%static-inputs)[coreutils]: Add
  `outputs' field.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Add a couple of synopses.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%guile-static,
  %guile-static-stripped): Add synopsis.

gnu: guile-static-stripped: Make sure the resulting binary works.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%guile-static-stripped): When
  compiling natively, make sure the final binary works.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Skip tests for the statically-linked gawk.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%static-inputs)[gawk]: Add #:tests? #f.

Merge branch 'core-updates'

gnu: make-bootstrap: guile-static-stripped has no "debug" output.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%guile-static-stripped): Add
  `outputs' field.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Fix cross compilation of binutils-static.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%binutils-static): Inherit configure
  flags from BINUTILS.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Have %gcc-static actually static when cross building.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%gcc-static): Pass `-static' through
  `LDFLAGS' when cross-compiling.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Allow cross-compilation of the bootstrap tarballs.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (package-with-relocatable-glibc): Turn
  `inputs' into a thunk.  Add `native-inputs', and pass it to
  `package-with-explicit-inputs'.
  (%static-inputs): Add %BASH-STATIC as an input to gawk when cross
  building.
  (%glibc-stripped): When cross compiling,
  use (glibc-for-bootstrap (cross-libc)) as the basis.
  (%gcc-static): Base on GCC-4.7, not GCC-FINAL.
  (tarball-package): TAR and XZ are native inputs.  Choose the tarball
  file name based on (%current-target-system) too.

Merge branch 'master' into core-updates

Conflicts:
	gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm

gnu: libgc: Always build with -DUSE_LIBC_PRIVATES.

* gnu/packages/bdw-gc.scm (libgc): Add `arguments' field.
* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%guile-static): Remove local `libgc'.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Abstract things with `package-with-relocatable-glibc'.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%glibc-for-bootstrap): Replace with...
  (glibc-for-bootstrap): ... this.  New procedure.
  (%standard-inputs-with-relocatable-glibc): Replace with...
  (package-with-relocatable-glibc): ... this.  New procedure.
  (%static-inputs, %gcc-static, %guile-static): Use it.

gnu: make-bootstrap: Keep Perl as an input only when needed.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%static-inputs)[coreutils]: Keep Perl
  as an input only if it's an input of COREUTILS.

Merge branch 'core-updates'

gnu: make-bootstrap: Fix %glibc-stripped.

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm (%glibc-stripped): Add `outputs' field.

Merge branch 'master' into core-updates

Conflicts:
	Makefile.am
	gnu/packages/base.scm

gnu: make-bootstrap: Import (gnu packages gcc).

* gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm: Import (gnu packages gcc).