On Mar  5, 2001, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> We use a rule that rebuilds Makefile if Makefile.in has changed.  GNU
> make will try to build `Makefile', if such a target exists, before
> running any other target, including `distclean'.

Maybe we could convince the maintainer(s?) of GNU make to introduce an
extension: some way to mark certain targets as not requiring a
Makefile update.

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