$(RM) $<+
ifdef AUTOCONFIGURED
-config.status: configure
- $(QUIET_GEN)if test -f config.status; then \
+# We avoid depending on 'configure' here, because it gets rebuilt
+# every time GIT-VERSION-FILE is modified, only to update the embedded
+# version number string, which config.status does not care about. We
+# do want to recheck when the platform/environment detection logic
+# changes, hence this depends on configure.ac.
+config.status: configure.ac
+ $(QUIET_GEN)$(MAKE) configure && \
+ if test -f config.status; then \
./config.status --recheck; \
else \
./configure; \