Update README.md

Update most recent stable release info

Reconfigure project build system

autoreconf project to supress errors on older versions of automake
(<1.15). This should solve issue #12.

Prepare Release Candidate

Change program version to 1.0.0 and rebuild configure system

Deleted TODO

Reconfigured project

Temporarily disabled unit testing with check due to issue #1

Added compile, install-sh, etc. as copies of files instead of symlinks