I finally went back to the top of the thread. Dmitry> Here is a rule from an automake generated makefile.
Dmitry> Below is a sample bash session with gnu make which demonstrates how a Dmitry> dummy shuffle.Po makefile fails to have shuffle.o rebuilt when Dmitry> shuffle.h changes. Dmitry> $ rm src/.deps/shuffle.Po Just don't do this. Maybe it's possible in theory to deal with this scenario, but it seems to me that it's not worth putting much effort into it. Tom