[PATCH phosphor-host-ipmid] Initial autotools support

[Patrick Williams]

> There's also the odd thing at the moment for host-ipmid where there's a
> shared library that depends on symbols in the binary

The shared libraries are plugins for host-ipmid.  We happen to be
providing a set of common plugins but those can be overridden by a
particular machine.  We also provide a set of openpower specific plugins
for the parts of IPMI that are not specified (OEM commands) and those
are in another package.

We should have a discussion on the call about autotools vs (...).  The US
side of the team has zero experience with autotools and so it was easier
to just write some simple makefiles to get started.

I don't consider autotools to be the "defacto standard" since cmake is
also pretty popular.

-- 
Patrick Williams
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