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Feature "improvement". Problem: The Makefile target triggers gmake to redo the whole auto-configure process if it sees any autoconfigure related files changed. It causes couple problems. One is that when multiple machines using --srcdir are running make, they may detect the changes and launch the autoconf at the same time. These end up as multiple hosts updating the same srcdir area together--bad things can happen. Another one is that when one modifies some Makefile.in, then try "make distclean" before launching the configure process. Instead of cleaning things, it started a configure, recreate all Makefiles and other files, then finally come around to do the distclean--who knows what it cleans by now since the Makefile is changed too. Last problem was that this auto-process will launch even for command "gmake -n ...". Solution: Renamed Makefile target to reconfigure so that the auto-checking is still available but must be launched explicitedly. If one wishes to have the auto-checking as default, one may do alias gmake "\gmake -i reconfigure; gmake \!* ".