GNU bug report logs - #14833
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Builder <at> jovi.net>

Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 15:49:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Builder <at> jovi.net>
Cc: 14833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14833: make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
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.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 14 days ago.

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