uclibc tool chain installation problem

[sjhill at realitydiluted.com]

> Can anyone tell me how to coerce buildroot into letting me use the
> uClibc that I fetched with svn?  It seems to demand downloading a
> snapshot of uClibc, no matter what option I select from make menuconfig.
> 
The filename is uClibc-snapshot.tar.bz2 or similar. You simply tar up
and compress your svn version to have the same filename, place it in
the 'dl' directory and then the build system will not attempt to
download it's own copy.

-Steve