[Bug 18322] New: Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Summary: Cannot recreate "configure" script
           Product: Wine
           Version: 20050930
          Platform: PC-x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: build-env
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I'm trying to create a paired-down version of Wine that contains only the
registry and COM framework (no GUI) from Wine.
I'm calling this project "v3c-com" for want of a better name, and it's purpose
is to act as a development framework/runtime for COM development under
GNU/Linux, ideally with DCOM interoperability with Windows.

As a first step I modified the configure.ac script:
1. package name change
2. remove configure arguments
3. remove programs and dll targets
4. Recreate "configure" - but how?

I tried just deleting the "configure" script and running tools/wineinstall...

$ tools/wineinstall
    Wine Installer v1.0

Running configure...

configure: error: cannot find sources (server/atom.c) in . or ..

Configure failed, aborting install.

I've indented the output for readability.
Let me repeat - I deleted "configure" so what's tools/wineinstall running???

I also tried running automake, but it's giving bizarre messages - probably
because aclocal.m4 isn't generated by autoconf, but it's just a guess.