automake, autoconf, aclocal and ./confiugre

[Doug]

Hello:

I am trying to bundle up my command line quaternion software to be
used on a windows box.  I know there is an idiom:

./configure
make
make install

That all works, so long as first I run:

aclocal && automake && autoconf

Is there a way to invoke these via a modification of configure.ac or
something?  I have seen lots of diagrams about the relationships of
all these tools, but still am confused.

Doug