- Apply a fix for the "thundering herd" problem when using "-j -l".
This also fixes bug #4693.
- Fix bug #7257: allow functions as ifdef arguments
- Fix bug #4518: make sure we print all double-colon rules with -p.
- Upgrade to autconf 2.58/automake 1.8/gettext 0.13.1
- Various doc cleanups, etc.
* Never use "touch" in make rules; it breaks on most sub-second
supporting systems. Use echo "" > $@ instead.
* Forgot to close test makefiles before using them!
All the above worked fine on Linux but failed miserably on Solaris.