Makefile bugs

[mjbauer]

Greetings:

I currently work at Tufts University.  When we build software
packages, we always put the source in CVS so we can monitor what local
customizations we've made to various packages.  However, by default,
CVS does not preserve the relative age of files when you check out an
entire tree for building.  automake's makefile does not deal well with
this.  Specifically, it tries to rebuild the top-level aclocal.m4 and
Makefile.in, chokes, and dies.  As I expect neither of these files
should ever be rebuilt by the build process, could you alter your
makefile to exempt them?

Thanks,
MJB