Get rid of the old buildsystem

Bye, bye, old friend.

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-The Make System
-~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~
-To compile this program you require GNU Make. In fact you probably need
-GNU Make 3.76.1 or newer. The makefiles contained make use of many 
-GNU Make specific features and will not run on other makes.
-
-The make system has a number of interesting properties that are not found
-in other systems such as automake or the GNU makefile standards. In
-general some semblance of expectedness is kept so as not to be too
-surprising. Basically the following will work as expected:
-
-   ./configure
-   make
- or
-   cd build
-   ../configure
-   make
-
-There are a number of other things that are possible that may make software
-development and software packaging simpler. The first of these is the
-environment.mak file. When configure is run it creates an environment.mak
-file in the build directory. This contains -all- configurable parameters
-for all of the make files in all of the subdirectories. Changing one
-of these parameters will have an immediate effect. The use of makefile.in 
-and configure substitutions across build makefiles is not used at all.
-
-Furthermore, the make system runs with a current directory equal to the
-source directory regardless of the destination directory. This means
-#include "" and #include <> work as expected and more importantly
-running 'make' in the source directory will work as expected. The
-environment variable or make parameter 'BUILD' sets the build directory.
-It may be an absolute path or a path relative to the top level directory.
-By default build-arch/ then build/ will be used with a fall back to ./ This 
-means you can get all the advantages of a build directory without having to
-cd into it to edit your source code!
-
-The make system also performs dependency generation on the fly as the
-compiler runs. This is extremely fast and accurate. There is however
-one failure condition that occurs when a header file is erased. In
-this case you should run make clean to purge the .o and .d files to
-rebuild.
-
-The final significant deviation from normal make practices is 
-in how the build directory is managed. It is not nearly a mirror of
-the source directory but is logically divided in the following manner
-   bin/
-     methods/
-   doc/
-     examples/
-   include/
-     apt-pkg/
-   obj/
-     apt-pkg/
-     cmdline/
-     [...]
-Only .o and .d files are placed in the obj/ subdirectory. The final compiled
-binaries are placed in bin, published headers for inter-component linking
-are placed in include/ and documentation is generated into doc/. This means
-all runnable programs are within the bin/ directory, a huge benefit for
-debugging inter-program relationships. The .so files are also placed in
-bin/ for simplicity.
-
-By default make is put into silent mode. During operation there should be
-no shell or compiler messages only status messages from the makefiles, 
-if any pop up that indicates there may be a problem with your environment.
-For debugging you can disable this by setting NOISY=1, ala
-   make NOISY=1
-
-Using the makefiles
-~~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
-The makefiles for the components are really simple. The complexity is hidden
-within the buildlib/ directory. Each makefile defines a set of make variables
-for the bit it is going to make then includes a makefile fragment from
-the buildlib/. This fragment generates the necessary rules based on the
-originally defined variables. This process can be repeated as many times as
-necessary for as many programs or libraries as are in the directory.
-
-Many of the make fragments have some useful properties involving sub
-directories and other interesting features. They are more completely 
-described in the fragment code in buildlib. Some tips on writing fragments
-are included in buildlib/defaults.mak
-
-The fragments are NEVER processed by configure, so if you make changes to 
-them they will have an immediate effect.
-
-Autoconf
-~~~~~~~~
-Straight out of CVS you have to initialize autoconf. This requires 
-automake (I really don't know why) and autoconf and requires doing 
-  aclocal -I buildlib
-  autoconf
-[Alternatively you can run make startup in the top level build dir]
-
-Autoconf is configured to do some basic system probes for optional and 
-required functionality and generate an environment.mak and include/config.h 
-from it's findings. It will then write a 'makefile' and run make dirs to 
-create the output directory tree.
-
-It is not my belief that autoconf should be used to generate substantial 
-source code markup to escape OS problems. If an OS problem does crop up 
-it can likely be corrected by installing the correct files into the 
-build include/ dir and perhaps writing some replacement code and 
-linking it in. To the fullest extent possible the source code should conform
-to standards and not cater to broken systems.
-
-Autoconf will also write a makefile into the top level of the build dir, 
-this simply acts as a wrapper to the main top level make in the source tree.
-There is one big warning, you can't use both this make file and the
-ones in the top level tree. Make is not able to resolve rules that 
-go to the same file through different paths and this will confuse the
-depends mechanism. I recommend always using the makefiles in the
-source directory and exporting BUILD.