Often you'll want to pass an option to ./configure. This uses dh to run all
commands before L<dh_auto_configure(1)>, then runs that command by hand,
-and then finished up by running the rest of the sequence. You could also
+and then finishes up by running the rest of the sequence. You could also
run ./configure by hand, instead of bothering with using dh_auto_configure.
And if necessary, you can add commands to run automake, etc here too.