Hopefully I just fixed the issue with fvwm-menu-desktop-config.fpl. Not sure why but the issue went away when I spelled out the name instead of using a variable.
I still get an error: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/dane/fvwm-src/build_version-2_6_1/fvwm-2.6.6/_build/doc/fvwm' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `../../../doc/fvwm/fvwm.man.xml', needed by `fvwm.1'. Stop I'm using VPATH, Ie. building outside the package. When it looks for fvwm.man.xml it prepends $(srcdir) which is still in the build tree, not the source tree. Of course fvwm.man.xml is not there. Ah the mysteries of automake... -- Dan Espen