No configure file

This is brilliant, but the configure file is absent.  On a vanilla install making the configure file first requires something(s) along the lines of:

- apt-get install autoconf 
- apt-get install libtool
- libtoolize --force
- aclocal
- autoheader
- automake --force-missing --add-missing
- autoconf
- ./autogen.sh

and then finally ./configure, etc.