Make 3.82, as shipped with Fedora 14, fixes some holes in the parser which in turn breaks behaviour of some Makefiles. Most notably eglibc's. http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-make@gnu.org/msg06220.html Fix back-ported from glibc/eglibc revision control. JL 13/10/10 Index: libc/manual/Makefile =================================================================== --- libc.orig/manual/Makefile +++ libc/manual/Makefile @@ -243,7 +243,10 @@ ifdef objpfx .PHONY: stubs stubs: $(objpfx)stubs endif -$(objpfx)stubs ../po/manual.pot $(objpfx)stamp%: +$(objpfx)stubs ../po/manual.pot: + $(make-target-directory) + touch $@ +$(objpfx)stamp%: $(make-target-directory) touch $@