some fixes and cleanup

.travis.yml

@@ -9,11 +9,7 @@ before_install:
   - if [ "$CXX" = "g++" ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq g++-4.9; fi
   - if [ "$CXX" = "g++" ]; then export CXX="g++-4.9" CC="gcc-4.9"; fi
   - sudo pip install cpp-coveralls pyyaml
-  - sudo apt-get install valgrind re2c
-
-before_script:
-  - autoreconf -iv
-  - ./configure
+  - sudo apt-get install valgrind
 
 script:
   - make