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makepp_statements -- Various statements in a makefile   A
statement is any line beginning with a word which does not have
a : in it. (A colon implies that the line is a rule.) For
example, these are statements:      load_makefile subdir  Makepp
has a number of builtin statements which you may occasionally
need to use.  Note that wherever you see an underscore, you may
also use a dash, because makepp converts dashes to underscores
in statement names.   This inserts the contents of another
makefile into the current makefile. It can be useful if you have
boilerplate files with a number of rules or variables, and each
directory only needs to make a few modifications. The include
statement also used to be commonly used in traditional makes in
conjunction with automatic include file scanners, but this is no
longer necessary with makepp.  include first considers the
current directory, then th