On the maintainer’s system:
aclocal
# Set up an m4 environmentautoconf
# Generate configure from configure.acautomake --add-missing
# Generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
On the end-user’s system:
./configure
# Generate Makefile from Makefile.inmake
# Use Makefile to build the programmake install
# Use Makefile to install the program