Synced to 2.4.12

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

I completed the syncing to 2.4.12 and tested it out on my local machine.
It works fine.

Please NOTE!!!! You must do a make mrproper when sync up our tree or use
a free tree with ruby ontop. Otherwise you will have problems. I did. This
week I'm going to start working on ruby at work in the next few days so
much more coding will be done :-) 


P.S
   Anyone try ruby on a IBM thinkpad? I did and the touch pad (PS/2 mouse)
didn't work. Also I had the same problem on a Compaq Laptop.