Subject: Re: bug#14833: make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:51:21 -0400

Devon Sean McCullough wrote:

> ./configure # ... configure: error: The following required libraries were not found ...
> make distclean # make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.

If configure did not finish successfully, there are no Makefiles.
There is no need for you to clean, since nothing has been built.
This is not a bug and is not specific to Emacs.