A few train of thoughts about the build procedure mess

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  DEVELOPMENT STATE

  OPEN ISSUES

    o  The apps/ dir should be cleaned up. 

       Ralf proposes the following cleanup:

       1. We rename the ssleay program to openssl.

          => This way it's consistent with out project and

             with the already started openssl(1) manpage, etc.

       2. We no longer create such a lot of <command> links for

          "openssl <command>". Instead we follow the "cvs" interface idea

          where all <command>s are called as "cvs <command>".

          => This no longer messes up the install dir with

             symlinks and provides a single-one and consistent command line

             interface. Additionally we can document it nicely with the single

             already started openssl(1) manual page.

       Status: Ralf +1

    o  The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:

       1. The config vs. Configure scripts

          It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.

          src/Configure. It confuses.

          Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure

                      script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove

                      Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf

                      itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks

                      which are currently in Configure.

       2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile:

          First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the

          whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real

          need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing.  And fifth,

          it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the

          local variables overriden.

          Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add

                      dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process

                      to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by

                      substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the

                      above problems.

       3. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:

          It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.

          Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way

                      one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h

    o  The installation under "make install" produces a very

       installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs.  That's