Fail again. :-/
My development directory is ~/dev/git/libmicrohttpd, but just for testing, I've done:
address@hidden:~$ cd ~
address@hidden:~$ echo $USER
silvioprog
address@hidden:~$ git clone https://gnunet.org/git/libmicrohttpd.git
address@hidden:~$ sudo chown -R $USER libmicrohttpd
address@hidden:~$ cd libmicrohttpd
address@hidden:~/libmicrohttpd$ ./bootstrap
address@hidden:~/libmicrohttpd$ ./configure > my-configure.log 2>&1
address@hidden:~/libmicrohttpd$ make > my-make.log 2>&1
address@hidden:~/libmicrohttpd$ make distcheck > my-make-distcheck.log 2>&1