What's worse, with autotools, is that while maybe only one programmer in 100 knows how to do ./configure; make; make install, only one in 10,000 knows m4. It's

What's worse, with autotools, is that while maybe only one programmer in 100 knows how to do ./configure; make; make install, only one in 10,000 knows m4. It's one of those odd corners of the ecosystem like troff. It would be very easy to slip by me an exploit written in m4, or troff for that matter, because I've never paid any attention to either.