Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

I like the idea here; it's an annoying wait. Could we do something
similar for make clean?

> ... and not recreate it (slowly) if 'configure' changed, just to
> be deleteted later during 'make distclean'.
spellink

> +# In case of 'make distclean' have configure as order-only prerequisite so
> +# that Makefile.config is not recreated when configure is newer than it is.
> +ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),distclean)

Two comments

- do we want to check for exactly distclean, or distclean one of the
  goals?

- it turns out that specifying e.g. "make distclean all" is currently
  broken (before your patch)