diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.am b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
index 80ccc59251..786c5ead3c 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign nostdinc
 
 EXTRA_DIST = README.md Makefile.example Makefile.inc Makefile.mk \
-  $(COMPLICATED_EXAMPLES) .checksrc
+  CMakeLists.txt $(COMPLICATED_EXAMPLES) .checksrc
 
 # Specify our include paths here, and do it relative to $(top_srcdir) and
 # $(top_builddir), to ensure that these paths which belong to the library