Introducing buildprep

[Eric S. Raymond]

There is now an executable script named "buildprep" in the top-level
directory that attempts to automate the job of installing build
perequisites.

I've tested it on recent Ubuntu and am reasonably sure it will work
on recent systems with a yum installer.

It doesn't yet handle Gentoo, SLES, or the BSDs.  Thiose of you
runnning on these platfoprms, see if you can get it to DTRT.

Note: when we get packaging on distro X we'll tell the script to do a
build-prerequisites pull based on the package metadata.  I know how
to do that on Debian.
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