make: *** No rule to make target `tools', needed by `all'. Stop - makefile

Question

I was trying to install the Flite1.4. The installation is two steps
./configure
make
But make gives me this error:
make: *** No rule to make target `tools', needed by `all'. Stop.
Please help to resolve this error.
[angus#bu flite-1.4-release]$ ls
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS config.status Exports.def Makefile src
bin config.sub fliteDll.vcproj missing testsuite
build configure flite.sln mkinstalldirs wince
config configure.in include palm
config.guess COPYING install-sh README
config.log doc lang sapi
[angus#cebu flite-1.4-release]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ar... ar
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for mmap... yes
checking sys/soundcard.h usability... yes
checking sys/soundcard.h presence... yes
checking for sys/soundcard.h... yes
checking machine/soundcard.h usability... no
checking machine/soundcard.h presence... no
checking for machine/soundcard.h... no
checking sys/audioio.h usability... no
checking sys/audioio.h presence... no
checking for sys/audioio.h... no
checking mmsystem.h usability... no
checking mmsystem.h presence... no
checking for mmsystem.h... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config/config
config.status: creating config/system.mak
[angus#bu flite-1.4-release]$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `tools', needed by `all'. Stop.

Answer 1

Your Makefile looks bad. Somewhere in it there is a like looking like:
all: <some-other-targets> tools
Which says that the target all requires the target tools to be made. But there is no line
in the Makefile defining the target tools.
That seems strange for a released code. Some idea on how to go on:
Make sure the target tools is correctly spelled. Case matters.
You may try to remove the dependency of all on tools by removing tools on the line described above and rerun make. This does not build you package completly, but at least you know if there are some other issues to resolve.
Run configure --help and look at the available options like --enable-XXXXX to may be used with configure. Using options with configure may modify the Makefile and avoid building the tools target.
Note that each time configure is called, the Makefile is being regenerated: so your modification may go lost.