Harti's notices

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This is just a list of things to do on our base system make. Actually it's two lists: the first one with the simple stuff, the second one with the hard things and features.

Simple stuff:

• constification
• WARNS = 6
• stylification
• Warnings for open .if directives are only issued if the .if has evaluated to false. Make it warn always.

Harder stuff:

• make the .POSIX target working
• converge with NetBSD's make as much as possible
• pattern rules
• use hash tables for variables (I have a patch from jmallet@, it needs some testing)
• make the MAKEFLAGS environment variable standard conform. This includes fixing the handling of command line variable definitions
• array processing for variables (check NetBSD's make. It may be already there).

Currently I'm working with Max Okumoto from DragonFly BSD on the simple list. He's a committer there so this will keep us in synch.