Independence from make

[rik]

> What does -core-devel think? Is making the KDE build system make-agnostic
> a worthy goal? I can test any changes I make on Solaris (gmake) and
> FreeBSD (BSD make) first, so I think my chance of gumming everything up
> are less than 50%.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

In fact, I'd like to see shell stuff turned into perl where possible.
Three reasons:

1. More portable.
2. More powerful.
3. Works on win32.

Don't we already require perl for building ?

Rik