Currently "make dist" fails with "No rule to make target README"

Currently, when attempting to build the distribution file as stated in the README, the target dist fails due to the following error:
”No rule to make target README', needed by distdir'”.

Below lies my attempt which demonstrates the error. I’m attempting this build on a CentOS 7 LXC container.

[root@host ~]# git clone https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit.git
Cloning into 'monit'...remote: 
Counting objects: 14141, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4937/4937), done.
remote: Total 14141 (delta 10902), reused 11891 (delta 8916)
Receiving objects: 100% (14141/14141), 2.99 MiB | 1.45 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (10902/10902), done.

[root@host ~]# cd monit/
[root@host monit]# ./bootstrap
(…)
Success bootstrapping libmonit
Success bootstrapping Monit

[root@host monit]# ./configure
(...)
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| License:                                                   |
| This is Open Source Software and use is subject to the GNU |
| AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3, available in this |
| distribution in the file COPYING.                          |
|                                                            |
| By continuing this installation process, you are bound by  |
| the terms of this license agreement. If you do not agree   |
| with the terms of this license, you must abort the         |
| installation process at this point.                        |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Monit has been configured with the following options:      |
|                                                            |
|  Compression:                                  ENABLED     |
|  PAM support:                                  ENABLED     |
|  SSL support:                                  ENABLED     |
|  Large files support:                          ENABLED     |
|  ASAN support:                                 DISABLED    |
|  IPv6 support:                                 ENABLED     |
|  Optimized:                                    DISABLED    |
|  Profiling:                                    DISABLED    |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

[root@host monit]# make dist
make  dist-gzip am__post_remove_distdir='@:'
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/monit'
bison -y -dvt -o src/y.tab.c src/p.y
/usr/bin/flex -i -osrc/lex.yy.c src/l.l
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `README', needed by `distdir'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/monit'
make: *** [dist] Error 2

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