Despite doc generation is disabled, the makefile is trying to build it. $ ./configure --disable-man-doc $ make Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory '/workdir/build-pkg/workdir/doc' make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'nft.8', needed by 'all-am'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/workdir/build-pkg/workdir/doc' make[1]: *** [Makefile:479: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/workdir/build-pkg/workdir' make: *** [Makefile:388: all] Error 2 Fixes: 4f2813a313ae0 ("build: Include generated man pages in dist tarball") Reported-by: Adan Marin Jacquot <adan.marin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@xxxxxxxxx> --- doc/Makefile.am | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am index 6bd90aa6..21482320 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/Makefile.am @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +if BUILD_MAN man_MANS = nft.8 libnftables-json.5 libnftables.3 A2X_OPTS_MANPAGE = -L --doctype manpage --format manpage -D ${builddir} @@ -16,7 +17,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = ${ASCIIDOCS} ${man_MANS} libnftables-json.adoc libnftables.adoc CLEANFILES = \ *~ -if BUILD_MAN nft.8: ${ASCIIDOCS} ${AM_V_GEN}${A2X} ${A2X_OPTS_MANPAGE} $< -- 2.20.1