make *** no targets specified and no makefile found. stop

make takes a makefile as input. Makefile usually is named makefile or Makefile. The configure command should generate a makefile, so that make could be in turn executed. Check if a makefile has been generated under your working directory.

running make clean and then ./configure should solve your problem.

I got the same error and i fixed it by looking at the solution from this site:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/40476.

SO did you got any error after running './configure' ? Maybe something about lacking tclConfig.sh. If so, instead of running './configure', you have to search for the tclConfigure.sh first and then put it in the command, in my case, its located in /usr/lib/. And then run: './configure ----with-tcl=/usr/lib --with-tclinclude=/usr/include'

./configure command should generate a makefile, named makefile or Makefile. if in the directory there is no this file, you should check whether the configure command execute success.

in my case, I configure the apr-util:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apr-util --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config

because the --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config, the apr did not install yet, so there configure fail, there did not generate the apr's /usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config.

So I install the apr, then configure the apr-util, it works.