Good instincts, but this time you don't want ./configure and make; the program is already built, so they're unnecessary.
Obviously, you need to have make installed for that plan to work; I do, but evidently it's not default (as I had assumed it was)...

I guess falling back to manually copying the one binary needed is sanest at this point.

So if I'm reading you right, you have everything in /usr/bin/xautomation-1.02/ ? That's not where I'd have put it, but it'll do.

What you want to wind up with is just the file xte in /usr/bin.

So, assuming it's in /usr/bin/xautomation-1.02/, do something likeand, optionally,to remove the source and other programs afterwards.