title: Make install fails, make returns nothing to be done for 'all-am'
body: <p>I am installing a C++ library called Rheolef on my Ubuntu 14 which is installed on a Virtual Machine. The host OS is Win7. 
  According to the installation procedure, I should use "make" and then "make install". 
  After make, I get something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>make[3]: Nothing to be done for `make-included'.
  grep '^dnl[     ][      ]*#' ../../configure.ac | \
        sed -e 's/^dnl[     ][      ]*//' -e 's/^#//'  | \
        sed -e "s/\@PACKAGE\@/rheolef/g" -e "s/\@VERSION\@/6.6/g" | \
        ../../config/col -b -x | ../../config/doc2texi -chapter -file configure.ac &gt; INSTALL.texi
  cp ../../INSTALL INSTALL.txt
  Making all in pexamples
  make  all-am
  make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
  Making all in pusrman
  make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  Making all in doxygen
  make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
  make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I initially thought this is not an error as it has also been indicated so in some other forums, but when I try make install, then I get an error which is very long, but has something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>​make  install-data-hook
  make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-hook'.
  Making install in pexamples
  make  install-am
  make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Let me know if you need some other information. I attached the complete log file after make install. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmgv2k8h0ufj3vo/342.docx?dl=0" rel="nofollow">Log File</a></p>