Reviewed-by: sherman

Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: replace awk-sed based spp.sh with a java regex based pre-processor
Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Just the Makefile changes to fix a cygwin nawk BINMODE=w problem.
Reviewed-by: igor, tbell

Summary: Changes to the way GNU make 3.81 deals with the env variable SHELL
Reviewed-by: xdono