The configure file is missing from the tarball

[Dan-Essin]

Can't make because can ./configure
configure is missing

these are the unpacked files:
ls -al master l
total 440K
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Aug 12 17:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 643 Aug 11 05:51 AUTHORS
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6K Aug 11 05:51 autogen.sh
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 backend
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 banners
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 11 05:51 ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 charset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36K Aug 11 05:51 configure.ac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13K Aug 11 05:51 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 cupsfilters
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 drv
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 filter
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 fontembed
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.2K Aug 11 05:51 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.8K Aug 11 05:51 INSTALL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.4K Aug 11 05:51 install-sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420 Aug 11 05:51 libcupsfilters.pc.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314 Aug 11 05:51 libfontembed.pc.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 331 Aug 11 05:51 libppd.pc.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 855 Aug 11 05:51 ln-srf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30K Aug 11 05:51 Makefile.am
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 mime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178K Aug 11 05:51 NEWS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 ppd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 ppdfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65K Aug 11 05:51 README
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 scripting
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 11 05:51 utils