Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Update Windows Build Instructions
From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:39:12 -0700
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:35:32AM +1000, David Arnold wrote:

> In my experience, shipping the configure(.sh) and Makefile(s) will 
> work on any Unix system: you don?t need the configure.ac, Makefile.am 
> or autoconf/automake installed in order to configure and build.

Right, that's the best part of of autoconf: it generates a shell script 
called configure that will run on any system without having autoconf 
installed.