On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:23:51PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: [...] > Maybe an implicit configure: configure.in rule in make itself ? This is because the top-level Makefile includes master.Makefile, and also contains a rule to rebuild this file, so GNU make first checks if it is up to date. Then it looks at config.status, configure and launch autoconf. A solution is to comment or remove the rule generating master.Makefile Denis