The CI build machinery is intentionally not handled by autotools, so for VPATH builds - which are mandatory now - we need to make sure we're looking into $(srcdir). Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Makefile.am | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 15df6ed68e..4edb3fdd43 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -148,4 +148,4 @@ gen-AUTHORS: fi ci-%: - $(MAKE) -C ci/ $@ + $(MAKE) -C $(srcdir)/ci/ $@ -- 2.23.0