found out the double \\ escape myself

we've got an easy way to nuke superfluous whitespace from a text file ;)

* clean up
* whitespace

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this fixes 'make install' with GNU bash under Arch GNU/Linux

document automake

I'm content with it ;)

- default to AUTOCONF_NEW
- no libtool needed

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