- establish a common interface for encoders and decoders, and
  re-implement the existing functions accordingly
- encoders always convert STRING_LIST to BLOB, decoders vice versa
- VMOD encode() and decode() write the new data to workspace
- transcode() writes the temporary BLOB to stack, then encodes it
  into a STRING in workspace
- if the same encoding is specified in transcode() for encode and decode,
  just return the concatenated STRING
  - XXX: except this won't reject illegal decodings
- simplify hex_encode(), and fix hex_en-/decode_l() (was backwards)
- add a macro to skip over empty and undefined strings in a STRING_LIST

- implement base64_encode(), no test yet
- added encodings BASE64URL and BASE64URLNOPAD

better error handling, fixes for parallel make, remove generated files from dist

On getting dependencies right:

See automake doc 9.4.1 Built Sources Example / Recording Dependencies manually

Conflicts:
	configure.ac

define PKG_CHECK_VAR if it doesn't exist

Fixes #19

Master: Fixes for #6 and #13

4.0: Fixes for #6  and #13

Access pkg-config variables the autoconf-way

Fixes #13 (github issue)

Fixes #6	(github issue)

Access pkg-config variables the autoconf-way

Fixes #13 (github issue)

Fixes #6 (github issue)

To make it more clear that we provide this as an example for anyone
to use for whatever purpose, change the license to public domain.

Fixes:		#12 (github issue)

Conflicts:
	configure.ac

To make it more clear that we provide this as an example for anyone
to use for whatever purpose, change the license to public domain.

Fixes:		#12 (github issue)