Fail to generate configure file for moxi

config/autorun.sh is unable to generate the configure file if we download the sources in tarball from github:
https://github.com/membase/moxi/tarball/1.7.0

Here is the output:
$ cd membase-moxi-e014d61/
[guillaume@localhost membase-moxi-e014d61]$ ./config/autorun.sh
./config/autorun.sh: running `/usr/bin/libtoolize --automake --copy --force'
./config/autorun.sh: running `/usr/bin/aclocal-1.11 -I m4'
aclocal-1.11: configure.ac:2: file `m4/version.m4' does not exist
Can't execute aclocal