remove over-zealous logging and error checking that just made things plain difficult to read
fix quotes
fixed unbound variable
Fixed binutils build when using host gcc version >= 4.9.2 (at least on Fedora 21).

Binutils was complaining:

../bfd/bfd.h:304:75: error: right-hand operand of comma expression has
no effect [-Werror=unused-value]
   #define bfd_set_section_userdata(bfd, ptr, val) (((ptr)->userdata =
(val)),TRUE)

There currently is no "solution", so the workaround is to ignore this by using

--disable-werror

in the configure invocation.
changing url for bootscripts. this new url may be temporary depending
if the original url comes back online as the mailing list indicates
may happen.
fix some more quoting issues
remove old function call
fix imports
switch to more normal color scheme for status notifications in builds