No rule to make target `doc/View_Client_Admin_Guide-en.pdf', needed by `all-am'. Stop

Question

I am attempting to build vmware-view-open-client-4.5.0-297975+dfsg, ./configure worked fine, but now when I'm trying to make or make install in that directory, I'm getting:

Found cached translation database
Merging translations into vmware-view.desktop.
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `doc/View_Client_Admin_Guide-en.pdf', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pi/vmware-view-open-client-4.5.0-297975+dfsg'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pi/vmware-view-open-client-4.5.0-297975+dfsg'
make: *** [install] Error 2

as an error. Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to fix this so I can proceed with the build?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

It looks like the debian package just patches that bit of the makefile out. =)

You should probably just do the same. Though I imagine that's what got you into the other error you ran into in which case you should probably just modify the resulting Makefile directly instead of the Makefile.am/Makefile.in since those trigger the autotools rebuild.