no configure file?

[gl00ten]

I'm on Debian 8.8, trying to compile.

~/geoipupdate$ ./configure
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

~/geoipupdate$ ls -al
total 88
drwxr-xr-x  7 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3   106 Mar 28 19:02 .clang-format
drwxr-xr-x  8 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 .git
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3   437 Mar 28 19:02 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3   526 Mar 28 19:02 .travis.yml
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3  5677 Mar 28 19:02 ChangeLog.md
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3 18092 Mar 28 19:02 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3   262 Mar 28 19:02 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3  1476 Mar 28 19:02 README.dev.md
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3  2112 Mar 28 19:02 README.md
drwxr-xr-x  2 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 elias dtp3   429 Mar 28 19:02 bootstrap
drwxr-xr-x  2 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 conf
-rw-r--r--  1 elias dtp3  1415 Mar 28 19:02 configure.ac
drwxr-xr-x  2 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 dev-bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 elias dtp3  4096 Mar 28 19:02 man

Am I missing something?

[horgh]

To build from Git you need to run ./bootstrap first.

[gl00ten]

Thank you very much. My fault for not reading below. Is it a good idea to move that part of the instructions above the build from source segment?

[horgh]

Yeah, I think we could make it clearer. Maybe at minimum we could mention this somewhere in the source file section. I'm not sure about changing the order as the Git section is intended more for developers, I believe. Anyway, let's leave this open to remind us to improve this.