Hello, The attached, er, hack, modifies configure.in so that all the Makefile dependencies are generated during configure time: defs_h = ... foo.o: foo.c $(defs_h) It exploits the fact that GDB's code base is very consistent in its use of "foo.h" vs -- the former is assumed to be local, the latter in a system library. Instead of having to to edit Makefile.in, or as with binutils, run automake, you just enter: ./config.cache --recheck Thoughts? Wonder how portable my SED is. Andrew