Toplevel Makefile.tpl cleanup 1/n

[Nathanael Nerode]

>At this point I suspect you know more about the top level build
>structure than most of us.  Perhaps you should be made official
>maintainer of that, not needing to seek these approvals?

I certainly wouldn't complain about that!  I have several large changes 
in mind for the future and it would be nice to be able to just put in 
the little changes...

>(I regret I am not competent to review any of these patches...)
>
>zw

--Nathanael