The libvirt-common.h is build time generated file from .in. Obviously, it's generated into builddir and not srcdir. Problem is, the list of header files to install, virinc_HEADERS contains only $(srcdir)/*.h and this misses libvirt-common.h. This problem is pretty obvious when doing a VPATH build. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Steps to reproduce: 1) make distclean 2) mkdir _build _install 3) cd _build 4) ../configure --prefix=$(pwd)/../_install 5) make && make install 6) find ../_install -name libvirt-common.h include/Makefile.am | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/Makefile.am b/include/Makefile.am index d626963..6b0b41e 100644 --- a/include/Makefile.am +++ b/include/Makefile.am @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ virincdir = $(includedir)/libvirt allheaders = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/libvirt/*.h) virinc_HEADERS = $(filter-out $(srcdir)/libvirt/libvirt-admin.h, $(allheaders)) +virinc_HEADERS += libvirt/libvirt-common.h EXTRA_DIST = libvirt/libvirt-common.h.in -- 2.4.10