title: I am trying to build a program on linux
body: <p>So I am trying to build this <a href="https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c</a> I have git cloned it and I followed the instructions but on the frist step it says to run ./configure, I can not find configure though. I have tried the configure.am but i get this error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@------:/usr/share/nginx/www/Geo/geoip-api-c# ./configure.ac 
  ./configure.ac: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
  ./configure.ac: line 1: `dnl AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I missing? </p>
  
  <p>One last question, what are the different make files extension/formats for? like .VC .in .am</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>I ran that file and just got this error back:</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@------:/usr/share/nginx/www/Geo/geoip-api-c# ./bootstrap 
  rm: cannot remove `ltmain.sh': No such file or directory
  ./bootstrap: 5: ./bootstrap: autoreconf: not found
  root@------:/usr/share/nginx/www/Geo/geoip-api-c# ^C
  root@------:/usr/share/nginx/www/Geo/geoip-api-c# 
  </code></pre>