5 17-02-2016: Major improvement in build stability: Dropped autotools.
7 Since their introduction in this project, the autotools have shown to be too
8 complex. I really tried to get hold of the underlying architecture and to
9 make peace with their grand design. But all I ran into were here-and-now
10 fixes that had to be made, depending on the platform and its installed
11 autotools. A last resort, namely pre-installing ./configure and Makefile.in
12 only brought more of that distracting attention to a part of the software
13 that ought to just work. It is time for a remedy, which is to remove the
14 autotools from the project and rely on good old Makefile again. We should
15 never have made them unreadable anyway.