Before copying the .erl files to the .eunit directory ensure that they
are deleted if they already exist. This prevents EACCES errors to happen
when trying to re-copy .erl files that are read-only.

a) make_symlink throws "not supported" on OS < Vista (e.g. 2003)
b) tarball creation stores windows symlinks as absolute paths
   instead of relative, causing service to fail to start after upgrade
   is made permanent.

Error report killing inet_gethost_native after eunit

Avoid error reports like this one:

  prompt$ rebar eunit
  ==> dummy (eunit)
    Test passed.

  =ERROR REPORT==== 29-Dec-2011::23:22:11 ===
  ** Generic server inet_gethost_native_sup terminating
  ** Last message in was {'EXIT',<0.62.0>,killed}
  ** When Server state == {state,inet_gethost_native,undefined,<0.62.0>,
                                 {local,inet_gethost_native_sup}}
  ** Reason for termination ==
  ** killed

Previously, it could happen if an eunit test did something that
required a name lookup, like in this example:

  -module(dummy_tests).
  -include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").

  x_test() ->
      {ok, _Hostent} = inet:gethostbyname(localhost).

The inet_gethost_native is a process, started on demand, under a
supervisor_bridge under the kernel_sup, but it is not a gen_server
process or the like, so it has nothing in '$ancestors' in its process
dictionary to indicate it is part of kernel.

This patch allows users to specify the directory in which common_test
source files can be found. Most common_test suites are integration,
rather than unit tests and keeping the sources apart from test sources
for other frameworks such as eunit and PropEr is a useful feature.

It is now possible to call rebar as:

  rebar xref skip_app=Mod1,Mod2,...

This makes it easy to skip running xref on (e.g)
imported dependencies in your application.

The function rebar_utils:is_skipped_app/0 is added so
that other rebar commands may use it.

Previously if erl_interface could not be found {error, not_found} was
incorrectly used as a path. With this change we fail early with a
descriptive error message.

{pre_hooks,  [{"linux", compile, "c_src/build_linux.sh"}]}.
{post_hooks, [{"linux", compile, "c_src/build_linux.sh clean"}]}.

This patch adds support for first_files to the port_compiler, via the
new `port_first_files` rebar config element.

When generating a node using rebar generate, rebar always used
code:root_dir() to find the Erlang installation to clone into the node
tree.  However, for anyone wishing to build a cross-compiled node, there
was no way to override this.  This patch adds a new option to
reltool.config file to allow an alternate root_dir to be specified, for
example:

{root_dir, "/tmp/otp_R14B03_armv7l"}

This assumes that the contents of /tmp/otp_R14B03_armv7l has been
generated using the instructions found in the xcomp directory in your
$ERL_TOP structure.  NOTE: you may have to add additional filters to
exclude files not present in the xcomp version, such as the .smp files
if you have disabled that.