Put the sed flag in the right place. Index: lib/libbamf-private/Makefile.in --- lib/libbamf-private/Makefile.in.orig +++ lib/libbamf-private/Makefile.in @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ bamf-gdbus-generated.c: org.ayatana.bamf.xml --interface-prefix org.ayatana.bamf \ $<; \ # Adding '_' prefix to generated private functions \ - $(SED) "s/bamf_dbus/_bamf_dbus/g" -i \ + $(SED) -i "s/bamf_dbus/_bamf_dbus/g" \ $@ $(shell basename $@ .c).h .NOTPARALLEL: @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ bamf-gdbus-view-generated.c: org.ayatana.bamf.view.xml --interface-prefix org.ayatana.bamf \ $<; \ # Adding '_' prefix to generated private functions \ - $(SED) "s/bamf_dbus_item/_bamf_dbus_item/g" -i \ + $(SED) -i "s/bamf_dbus_item/_bamf_dbus_item/g" \ $@ $(shell basename $@ .c).h # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.