tar ball jq-jq-1.6.tar.gz miss file "configure"

[zeroleo12345]

according the readme.md for complie from tar ball, it seem that lack of file "configure".
and in old version, "configure" file exist, like in jq-1.5.tar.gz

[wader]

Strange, could it be that you downloaded from the tags page and not releases?

$ curl -sL 'https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.6/jq-1.6.tar.gz' | tar t | grep '^jq-1.6/configure$'
jq-1.6/configure

[zeroleo12345]

oh yes. BTW, what's the difference in these 2 tar ball ?

[wader]

Not sure but i think "Source code (tar.gz)" is just the files in the repo (no configure file) and jq-1.16.{tar.gz,zip} are the result from automake dist (a configure script it generated).