Installing of linux-firewire-utils

[Susie B. <su...@po...>]

Hi,

Now I'm struggling to install linux-firewire-utils and would like to be given any help.

I downloaded its source in zipped form from its github page[1].

The README file instructed me that

    This package uses GNU Autoconf; you can use the standard installation
    sequence:

      configure
      make
      make install

But there wasn't configure file but configure.ac file.
Some internet guy advised me that I had to use autoconf command. So I did:

    [linux-firewire-utils-master]$ autoconf
    configure.ac:4: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
          If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
          See the Autoconf documentation.
    configure.ac:8: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY
    configure.ac:34: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
    
    [linux-firewire-utils-master]$ ./configure
    ./configure: line 1935: syntax error near unexpected token `foreign'
    ./configure: line 1935: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign no-define silent-rules)'
    
    [linux-firewire-utils-master]$ make
    make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

I could get configure file and execute it. But there were many errors and finally make command also failed as we can see in above log.

I also could find that configure.ac (and Makefile.am which the package has) are the files which a developer use to make one's package with the GNU Automake system. But I have no idea how I can use the files and Automake because I have no experience of program development.

Are there any easy way to install this utils from its package? Or It isn't a work for non development person?
I would appreciate any advice or suggestion about it.

[1] https://github.com/cladisch/linux-firewire-utils

Regards,
Susie B.