non-recursive makefiles

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

Attached an improved patch for non-recursive makefiles.

Some open issues:
1. Few 'TODO's in various autotools files, these needs closer examination.

2. 'make distcheck' fails on Mac. The error is:
     /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.
   (perhaps this is unrelated).

3. The non-shell tests (those based on ./testsuite/runtest and 
./testsuite/Makefile.tests)
  save their log/trs files in the top directory instead of ./testsuite.

4. running 'make' when ./sed/sed does not exist emit errors such as:
    $ rm -f sed/sed
    $ make
    make: ./sed/sed: Command not found
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
    make[1]: ./sed/sed: Command not found
    Making all in po
    make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
    Making all in .
    make[2]: ./sed/sed: Command not found
    [...]

  I haven't been able to pinpoint yet from where they originate.


Comments welcomed,
  - assaf

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