Is it worth adding this to the documentation for compiling from source.
To get _autosetup to run after having installed the packages recommended I had to run

sudo apt install m4 pkg-config autoconf libtool

To get config to complete

sudo apt install python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libwxgtk3.2-dev libnotify-dev libgtk-3-dev

And to get rid of the errors that were thrown up by make and not caught by configure

sudo apt install ibwxgtk-webview3.2-dev

For the first of these, there was a line in the output of config that gave a clue but not as far as I could see for the second which I needed to look for clues in the output from make. File now saved so that I can get everything up and running a lot more quickly next time I do a clean install.

This was on xubuntu23.04

Just spotted a typo. Correct version below.

And to get rid of the errors that were thrown up by make and not caught by configure

sudo apt install libwxgtk-webview3.2-dev