If you insist on distributing your program only in source code, please include a working Makefile and configure script. To get your program to compile and install, here's all I should have to do:

./configure; make; make install

If this does not work, and does not fail with a readable error that gives me a good idea *why* it failed (such as dependency problems) I will throw your program away and not use it ever until someone compiles it into a binary distribution for my system type. I am not a developer and there's very little in this world I hate more than mucking with broken Makefiles.

Thank you and have a nice day.

-- Dave