No rule to make target needed by all-am

Question

I wrote a program in C++ and I'm using autoconf and automake. Also, I've made man page (my_program.1) in the same folder that has all source files, header files and so on. In my Makefile.am I have this line

man1_MANS = my_program.1

When I say ./configure it's all ok, but when I run make I get this error:

make: *** No rule to make target `my_program.1`, needed by `all-am`.  Stop.

Any idea how to fix this?

It says "all-am", not "all-em". Perhaps you've been searching for the wrong phrase. — Lightness Races in Orbit, Jul 15 '15 at 20:58
@LightnessRacesinOrbit Sorry, it was typo in title. Thanks for that. — golobitch, Jul 15 '15 at 21:22
You have a `my_program.1` file in your sources? In what directory? — Etan Reisner, Jul 15 '15 at 21:45
I don't have it in directory. It's in root folder of my project with al source and header files. — golobitch, Jul 15 '15 at 23:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '23 at 19:58

I encountered the same message when running make distcheck and it was because my man page wasn't being included in my release distribution. Adding my man page to EXTRA_DIST fixed the issue.

In your case, that means the following:

EXTRA_DIST = my_program.1
man1_MANS = my_program.1

No rule to make target needed by all-am

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