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No configure? Sorry, no. Very few people are able to do sh autogen.sh or autoreconf -if; libtoolize

You could have `./configure` print a message saying to do exactly what you said.

Then that's what they will have to learn then isn't it?

No, we had those discussions forever. Also in the light recently again, with autotoolized github src tarball and zips unable to use.