make-rpm was failing as below because the dist target (which is responsible to generate the package tarball) was removed from rpm generation Add it back and update po/Makefile.in.in to do not modify files while generating the package. /usr/bin/mkdir -p rpm/BUILD rpm/RPMS rpm/SOURCES rpm/SPECS rpm/SRPMS <danielhb> cp ./wok.spec rpm/SPECS/wok.spec <danielhb> cp wok-2.2.0.tar.gz rpm/SOURCES <danielhb> cp: cannot stat ‘wok-2.2.0.tar.gz’: No such file or directory ---  Makefile.am                              | 8 ++++----  po/Makefile.in.in                        | 9 ---------  src/wok/plugins/sample/po/Makefile.in.in | 9 ---------  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 2b27a6a..8b3f508 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ wok.spec: contrib/wok.spec.fedora contrib/wok.spec.suse   /bin/false ;                                        \   fi   -rpm: wok.spec +rpm: dist wok.spec   $(MKDIR_P) rpm/BUILD rpm/RPMS rpm/SOURCES rpm/SPECS rpm/SRPMS   cp $(top_srcdir)/wok.spec rpm/SPECS/wok.spec   cp $(DIST_ARCHIVES) rpm/SOURCES   rpmbuild -ba --define "_topdir `pwd`/rpm" rpm/SPECS/wok.spec   -fedora-rpm: contrib/wok.spec.fedora +fedora-rpm: dist contrib/wok.spec.fedora   ln -sf contrib/wok.spec.fedora wok.spec   $(MAKE) rpm   -suse-rpm: contrib/wok.spec.suse +suse-rpm: dist contrib/wok.spec.suse   ln -sf contrib/wok.spec.suse wok.spec   $(MAKE) rpm   @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ VERSION:   git describe --abbrev=0 --always > $@;        \   fi   -.PHONY: deb install-deb rpm fedora-rpm suse-rpm ChangeLog VERSION +.PHONY: deb install-deb rpm fedora-rpm suse-rpm VERSION      clean-local: diff --git a/po/Makefile.in.in b/po/Makefile.in.in index d01fb31..b7168c7 100644 --- a/po/Makefile.in.in +++ b/po/Makefile.in.in @@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ maintainer-clean: distclean    distdir = $(top_builddir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/$(subdir)  dist distdir: - $(MAKE) update-po   @$(MAKE) dist2  # This is a separate target because 'update-po' must be executed before.  dist2: stamp-po $(DISTFILES) @@ -317,14 +316,6 @@ dist2: stamp-po $(DISTFILES)   if test -f $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot; then \     dists="$$dists $(DOMAIN).pot stamp-po"; \   fi; \ - if test -f $(srcdir)/ChangeLog; then \ -   dists="$$dists ChangeLog"; \ - fi; \ - for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do \ -   if test -f $(srcdir)/ChangeLog.$$i; then \ -     dists="$$dists ChangeLog.$$i"; \ -   fi; \ - done; \   if test -f $(srcdir)/LINGUAS; then dists="$$dists LINGUAS"; fi; \   for file in $$dists; do \     if test -f $$file; then \ diff --git a/src/wok/plugins/sample/po/Makefile.in.in b/src/wok/plugins/sample/po/Makefile.in.in index 52ab81c..62e9dae 100644 --- a/src/wok/plugins/sample/po/Makefile.in.in +++ b/src/wok/plugins/sample/po/Makefile.in.in @@ -308,7 +308,6 @@ maintainer-clean: distclean    distdir = $(top_builddir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/$(subdir)  dist distdir: - $(MAKE) update-po   @$(MAKE) dist2  # This is a separate target because 'update-po' must be executed before.  dist2: stamp-po $(DISTFILES) @@ -319,14 +318,6 @@ dist2: stamp-po $(DISTFILES)   if test -f $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot; then \     dists="$$dists $(DOMAIN).pot stamp-po"; \   fi; \ - if test -f $(srcdir)/ChangeLog; then \ -   dists="$$dists ChangeLog"; \ - fi; \ - for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do \ -   if test -f $(srcdir)/ChangeLog.$$i; then \ -     dists="$$dists ChangeLog.$$i"; \ -   fi; \ - done; \   if test -f $(srcdir)/LINGUAS; then dists="$$dists LINGUAS"; fi; \   for file in $$dists; do \     if test -f $$file; then \