[Gllug] just a quick question

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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Daniel P. Berrange announced authoritatively:
> The idea of autoconf make is a good one - the implementation using
> m4 is pure evil. When people say autoconf sucks, 99% of this dislike
> is directly attributable to the pain & suffering of writing macros
> in m4.

Actually it tends to be attributable to memories of how bad it was
before Autoconf 2.50. The syntax was hugely regularized and sanitized in
the 2.5x series and is now almost sane.

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