I wish to compile some plugins from Purple Plugin Pack for use in my N900, however all Makefiles in the package must be configured first and I don't know how to configure it in MADDE

I've tried "./configure", "mad ./configure", "mad configure" but none of them work
FYI I've successfully compiled a pidgin plugin once, so I know it's not purple lib issue since I got purple-dev on MADDE
I just want to know how to run 'configure' in MADDE

Thanks a lot