Not really.  Not many people have the whole autotools&#x2F;automake tool chain installed, let alone document building tools, and whatever other processing the project does (eg SQLite uses some TCL scripts).  So they&#x27;d have to go and get all those, obeying any version constraints.  And after all that they&#x27;d end up at the same point as getting an archive intended by the maintainer for them to build and install.