The whitespaces instead of tabs here cause the new, stricter, parser in make 3.82 to barf on the doc makefiles. This patch should no longer be required in more recent gstreamer version JL - 14/12/10 Index: gstreamer-0.10.29/common/gtk-doc.mak =================================================================== --- gstreamer-0.10.29.orig/common/gtk-doc.mak +++ gstreamer-0.10.29/common/gtk-doc.mak @@ -232,6 +232,6 @@ dist-hook: dist-check-gtkdoc dist-hook-l -cp $(srcdir)/$(DOC_MODULE).types $(distdir)/ -cp $(srcdir)/$(DOC_MODULE)-sections.txt $(distdir)/ cd $(distdir) && rm -f $(DISTCLEANFILES) - -gtkdoc-rebase --online --relative --html-dir=$(distdir)/html + -gtkdoc-rebase --online --relative --html-dir=$(distdir)/html .PHONY : dist-hook-local docs Index: gstreamer-0.10.29/common/gtk-doc-plugins.mak =================================================================== --- gstreamer-0.10.29.orig/common/gtk-doc-plugins.mak +++ gstreamer-0.10.29/common/gtk-doc-plugins.mak @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ dist-hook: dist-check-gtkdoc dist-hook-l -cp $(srcdir)/$(DOC_MODULE).types $(distdir)/ -cp $(srcdir)/$(DOC_MODULE)-sections.txt $(distdir)/ cd $(distdir) && rm -f $(DISTCLEANFILES) - -gtkdoc-rebase --online --relative --html-dir=$(distdir)/html + -gtkdoc-rebase --online --relative --html-dir=$(distdir)/html .PHONY : dist-hook-local docs