There is no question the generated code is practically indecipherable. But you have to treat it like a compiler; no one goes leafing through the ".o" that GCC generates on a regular basis, so why worry about what "autoconf" and "automake" produce?
Actually, object files are nothing but undecipherable. They are machine code, well documented by the architecture manuals and the ELF format. There are also tools to introspect them (objdump, ld, etc.), which, believe you me, is done on a regular basis by a lot of people.
Actually, object files are nothing but undecipherable. They are machine code, well documented by the architecture manuals and the ELF format. There are also tools to introspect them (objdump, ld, etc.), which, believe you me, is done on a regular basis by a lot of people.