In the top-level Makefile a number of locale related environment
variables were preset to give a small speed up when building the kernel.

Unfortunately this had the bad sideeffect that the variable
CFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.o lost the exported vaule in some setups (obviously
not mine).  This smells like a make issue - but the best solution is
simply to drop presetting the locale related variables.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>