--- a/doc/reference/libpurple/Makefile.am	Mon Feb 24 21:22:04 2014 +0100
+++ b/doc/reference/libpurple/Makefile.am	Tue Feb 25 10:08:59 2014 +0100
@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@
 # for --rebuild-sections in $(SCAN_OPTIONS) e.g. $(DOC_MODULE)-sections.txt
 DISTCLEANFILES = $(DOC_MODULE).types $(DOC_MODULE)-sections.txt
 
+dist-hook: html-build.stamp
+
 # Comment this out if you want 'make check' to test you doc status
 # and run some sanity checks
 if ENABLE_GTK_DOC