Installation method is not clear. No targets specified and no makefile found.

[slvrshot]

Problem description

I followed the brew install commands listed in the read me. Everything seems to run fine but when I try to run make it throws this error.

I have never installed packages using GNU. I have installed many bioinformatic packages but this one has me completely stumped. Can someone please help me? What am I doing wrong?

Exact command line call triggering the problem

Macbooks-MBP:Reago Jay$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
Macbooks-MBP:Reago Jay$ make cairo=no
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Macbooks-MBP:Reago Jay$ cd

gt ...

Example minimal input triggering the problem

What GenomeTools version are you reporting an issue for (as output by gt -version)?

Did you compile GenomeTools from source? If so, please state the make parameters used.

What operating system (e.g. Ubuntu, Mac OS X), OS version (e.g. 15.10, 10.11) and platform (e.g. x86_64) are you using?

[satta]

If you installed GenomeTools via Homebrew (brew install command) then you don't need to run make. The make call is only necessary when compiling from source.
If your Homebrew installation finished without problems, just try if you can run gt or gt -version directly. You should get something like:

$ gt -version                                                                                                         [1]
gt (GenomeTools) 1.5.8
Copyright (c) 2003-2016 G. Gremme, S. Steinbiss, S. Kurtz, and CONTRIBUTORS
Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg
See LICENSE file or http://genometools.org/license.html for license details.

Used compiler: Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)
Compile flags:  -g -Wall -Wunused-parameter -pipe -fPIC -Wpointer-arith -O3 -m64 -Qunused-arguments -Wno-parentheses -Werror

[slvrshot]

What is GenomeTools listed as via Homebrew?

Is it brew install genometools or brew install gt?

Nevermind I see its brew install genome tools. I wish this was clarified in the readme.