software installation - Trying to install a file (xf86-input-mtrack) downloaded from Github

I'm quite new to Ubuntu/Linux in general, I'm a mac user and have been able to double click/drag applications to install them.

I've recently been trying to set up some functionality on my Ubunutu 18.04 installed on my mac, and what a saga.

Read the readme, which says, use ./configure and make && makefile.
I've just extracted it on my download folder... I searched on how to install something from Github, and there's no generic answer.

1. My question is, how can I install this thing and get it onto my computer?
   https://github.com/p2rkw/xf86-input-mtrack#TapDragEnable




2. which file am I supposed to make and makefile? Am I supposed to use a variable after make or just type make when I'm in the directory?

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I have gone into ./configure and ./configure --help. The readme file says, the next step is to use make && makefile. I've type those commands in and a few more, but nothing happens.

I tried other ./configure commands e.g. ./configure install-sh, install-sh and this appears:

configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `CC': machine `CC' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/bash ./config.sub CC failed